Pipe Dreams Quotes

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Lying, Giving

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Truth, Lying

  Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”

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• Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Relief, Debt

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• Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
  And straight reality is always cold

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Reality, Hands

  Song: Keep It Simple, Album: Keep It Simple, 2008

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• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

  Rudy Rucker

  Dream, Inner Peace, Surfing

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• I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

  Immortal Technique

  Dream, Fighting, Winning

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

  Kimberly Elise

  Dream, Kids, Want

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Dream, Average, Expectations

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• Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Dream, Powerful

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

  Peter Roskam

  Dream, Thinking, Bills

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• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.

  Norman Macbeth

  Dream, Suggestions, Matter

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• We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

  Rudy Rucker

  Surfing, World, Wave

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• Oh you only fight the fights you can win?  You fight the fights that need fighting!

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Winning, Needs

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• Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!

  Trista Sutter

  Dream, Perspective, Psychology

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.

  St. Lucia

  Dream, Crazy, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Dream, Technology, Pipe

  Usenet message, February 05, 1992.

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• Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.

  Dan Monson

  Dream, Country, Team

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• Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Dream, Spiritual, Emotional

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• The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Dream, Teacher, Jobs

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• I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Christian, Dream, Reality

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• I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.

  Michael Pollan

  Dream, Powerful, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Dream, Thinking, Hands

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• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dream, Lucky, Juice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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