Mark Batterson Quotes

I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

a dream is only a memory of the future

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.