Ari Graynor Quotes

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of them every day.

To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.

You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

Dreams grow holy put in action.

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.