Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of not only dreaming and planning but also taking action to live those dreams.
Samuel Eliot Morison's quote suggests that while dreaming and envisioning one's goals is essential, it is even more crucial to actively engage in the process of achieving those dreams. Living our dreams involves making practical efforts and experiencing the journey rather than merely fantasizing about the outcomes. It encourages a balance between aspiration and action.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech at a graduation ceremony.
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a book warehouse and was assigned to the third floor where all the children's books were. For four and a half years, I spent all day, every day around children's books, and it wasn't long before I fell in love with them.
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