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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
Sep 10, 2025
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.
The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.