Childhood Dreams Quotes

• It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Inspiring, Karma

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.321, Hachette UK

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• When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Dream, Heart

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• I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

  Andrew Wiles

  Dream, Childhood, Adults

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Helping Others, Important

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

  Glenn Kurtz

  Dream, Giving Up, Athlete

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• I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

  Randy Pausch

  Fun, Dying, Last Lecture

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

  Ethan Hawke

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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• It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

  Randy Pausch

  Important, Last Lecture, Knows

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Creativity, Should Have

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Escaping

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Fun, Childhood

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• When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.

  Bette Midler

  Dream, Thinking, Childhood

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• I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

  Linda McCartney

  Horse, Growing Up, Player

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• Alice! A childish story take,
  And with a gentle hand,
  Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
  In Memory's mystic band,
  Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
  Plucked in far-off land.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Memories, Flower

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Children, Crazy

  "Toys of tomorrow" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. March 1, 1998.

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• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  Randy Pausch

  Funny, Life, Investing

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Dream, Party, Childhood

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• Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Wall, Dedication

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Children, Player

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• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

  Raquel Welch

  Marriage, Dream, Reality

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• My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

  Lisa Leslie

  Dream, Childhood

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• I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

  Tim Hudson

  Dream, Perfect, Childhood

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• It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood dreams had finally found the place where they could materialize. I had arrived where I was always meant to be. I did not know how it could be practically achieved, but I was certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was here that I wanted to live.

  Kuki Gallmann

  Dream, Night, Childhood

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• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

  Rebecca Carroll

  Dream, Horse, Childhood

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• I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.

  Emma Watson

  Growing Up, Heart, Self

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 26, 2015

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