“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown, American motivational speaker, author, radio DJ, television host and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
If living our dreams was easy everyone with one would be living theirs. But, over the course of a lifetime the well-intentioned superego voices of our parents, coaches, bosses and significant others cover our dreams like plaque on teeth making them harder to remove as time goes by. However, once we remove those controlling voices and go for what’s important to us the rewards are magnificent and our lives shine more brightly than ever imagined.
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This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists… by spending time alone practicing what they love.” Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author with over 80 published books that have sold 25 million copies in 38 countries
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” —Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut who became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
“And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.” Keith Richards
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“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin, leading English art critic of the Victorian era as well as an art patron, watercolourist, prominent social thinker, philanthropist and one of the great visionaries of the 19th century.
“I do not dream at night. I dream all day. I dream for a living.” American director, producer, and screenwriter Steven Spielberg