Daydreaming Quotes

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. (Neil Gaiman)
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. View quote
Leonard Susskind
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world. View quote
Samantha Shannon
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't. View quote
Shannon Hale
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. View quote
Bo Bennett
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy. View quote
B. J. Novak
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. View quote
David Morrissey
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways. View quote
Erik Qualman
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. View quote
Jenna Fischer
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. (James Black)
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. View quote
Kate Smith
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them. View quote
Mark Waters
When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject. View quote
Sergio Aragones
I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. View quote
Ian McEwan
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering. View quote
E. O. Wilson
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it. I thought I was writing books one after the other in a disjointed way, in successive bouts of oblivion, but often the same faces, the same names, the same places, the same phrases keep coming back in book after book, like patterns on a tapestry woven while half asleep. While half asleep or while daydreaming. A novelist is often a sleepwalker, so steeped is he in what he must write, and it is natural to worry when he crosses the road in case he is run over. Do not forget, though, the extreme precision of sleepwalkers who walk over roofs without ever falling off. View quote
Patrick Modiano
Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain. View quote
Tony Buzan
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn? (Shannon Hale)
We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. View quote
Shannon Hale
Of course, you have to remind yourself that you might be seeing things that were never there. You might be maneuvering your memories to bring them into line with what you'd want them to be. You can't be sure you're not just daydreaming. View quote
Algis Budrys
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected. View quote
Kathleen Tessaro
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. View quote
Charlie McDermott