Herbert Kaufman Quotes

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

All men of action are dreamers.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.