Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 12, p. 206
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
O interview (2003)
Context: I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich. And this the one thing I learned: How do you recognize what's your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you? … The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 12, p. 206
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
Source: " Dolly Parton Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Tennessee 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOm2lLIOoU&t=6m35s" (at 6m35s), University of Tennessee, Knoxville on YouTube.
“You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 94
Context: You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.
“Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.”
David Almond book My Name Is Mina
Source: My Name Is Mina
Tsai Ing-wen (1956) President of the Republic of China
Liu Xiaobo's dream should be China's dream: Taiwan's Tsai, Focus Taiwan, 1, July 13, 2017, 14 July 2017 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201707130028.aspx,
“Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming.”
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
Singing School -Learning to Write (and read) Poetry W W Norton, New York 2013
Singing School
“Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”
Hugh Hefner (1926–2017) American businessman and magazine publisher