Top 139 Daydreaming Quotes & Sayings

I remember daydreaming out in the outfield: I wish I had more time. I want to read 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

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

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

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.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that's grabbed me.

You deserve to die," I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. "Excuse me?" "Nothing." "Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed." "Not maggot feed, just-" "Dead!" "Forget it" "I don't know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess." "Daydreaming about my death?" "Forget it", I repeat. "Are you sure you aren't still mad that I wouldn't let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings?" "More like I didn't want to borrow them.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

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.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.

God, I love daydreaming out plane windows.

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.