"For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real."
2006-06-06 03:50:41 · 27 answers · asked by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Basically the quote tells you that you can only grow or advance as high or as far as your dreams will take you. So to make great strides in life you must dream big. It also tells you that it is not nearly enough to dream, but you must put some sweat equity into achieving that dream.
It figures into my life through every scientific or engineering advance that man makes. The fact that I am communicating with you right now over the internet is attributable to that quote. Someone had to dream of such a great endeaver, and then had to work hard enough to carry that out.
2006-06-07 10:20:02 · answer #1 · answered by Coupe60 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
I had a dream as a young woman, never thinking it would ever be fulfilled. Then one day it started to take shape, it was becoming a reality for me. It was a long struggle but a very joyous one.
That dream did determine my future, simple because my partner (while he dreamt part of it with me and encouraged me) when that dream became bigger than what he had envisaged, it determined our breakup.
That is only one example, so yes. in some ways that quote is correct.
Man always has dreams and struggles to make them come true, even if only a small part of those dreams become realized.
2006-06-07 14:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My only dream as a child was to be tall and slim and blond and wear a pink and white jumpsuit like the voltron princess. I'm not sure how I would have struggled to make that happen, but since then I really haven't had any dreams to speak of. I think I mostly just react to stimuli. I guess my failure to be a blond in a pink and white jumpsuit has made me feel that all my hopes and dreams are for naught.
So, in short, that phrase no longer has a place in my life. I left it in the past with Princess Allura.
2006-06-06 10:58:56 · answer #3 · answered by TheHza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be true as a retrospective thought of a person who did it for many who failed, they keep on wondering why thay did not succeed despite dreaming and putting in all the heart an soul.
A successful person has many freinds and is discussed and analysed a lot and hence all these quotes become popular, lets not forget for every public success there are much larger private failures.
2006-06-06 11:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 74 and my dreams were a struggle and still are but I do make them real as much as possible and I had a great life
2006-06-06 10:53:30 · answer #5 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It falls into a lot of what I believe, and a lot of why I haven't been the person I have the potential to be. My life dreams are fleeting. I am happy with shelter, food, air, and love. I'd LIKE things like more money, my own house, to own the Washington Capitals, etc etc, but the desire for that is so light that I'm never motivated.
2006-06-06 11:54:50 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life isn't so dramatic. I wanted to be a teacher and so I am. I didn't really dream about it though. I dreampt of playing centerfield for the Yankees. People who have done great things, first have had to dream of them. "I dream things that never were and say why not?" George Bernard Shaw. This could describe Einstein, Martin Luther King, George Washington Carver, Pasteur, Edison, Susan B. Anthony, and of course George W. Bush. " I dream of mistakes that never were and say let's do it."
2006-06-07 06:23:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
play the hand you were delt. Lifes not always fair, you reap what you sew, and as you reach for you're star there will be others that you touch along the way.
You're dreams are what keep you entertained while you sleep.
I can control my dreams. Not alot of people can. Sometimes I have dreams that feel truly real.
2006-06-06 10:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by kellbell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I closely associate dreams with goals. If one doesn't have them, what criteria can we live our lives by? Does one who has no dreams just sit quietly in their daily life and take what comes and never try to go outside their boundaries? I believe that having dreams will help a person in the most dire circumstances both survive and overcome their situation.
2006-06-07 16:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Sassy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We must not struggle to make our dreams real, we must endeavor to wake up! And while I struggle to wake up I choose to dream a happy dream. There is no past, present or future - there is only now.
2006-06-06 10:58:48 · answer #10 · answered by Palori 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋