William C. Dement Quotes

Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

William C. Dement

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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Dream
  • Designer
  • Lifelong

• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dream

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Dream
  • Wealth
  • Fools

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Dream
  • Role
  • Had

• Daddy, daddy, daddy, All I want is you. You can have me, baby - but my lovin’ days is through. A certain amount of impotence in a dream deferred.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Dream
  • Baby

• Had a dream, I was king, I woke up, still king.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Dream
  • King

• Blue Moon,Now I'm no longer alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Remember
  • Dream

• For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years, I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

  

  Michael N. Castle
  • Dream
  • Teacher
  • Realizing

• The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Dream
  • Creating
  • Awareness