We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and dreams can shape our reality, turning imagination into tangible outcomes.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that the power of imagination and dreams is a fundamental force in bringing ideas and desires into reality. It highlights the process of envisioning something—be it a personal aspiration, like having a child, or a creative invention—before it becomes a concrete entity in the real world, emphasizing the connection between thought and creation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams, this quote can inspire listeners to believe in their ability to manifest their aspirations.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
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