A Quote by Frederic Henry Hedge
The dreamer is a madman quiescent,
the madman is a dreamer in action.
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The madman is a dreamer awake
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart
I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
i'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.
