Dream

I think there are 2 types of dream, one is what we do when we're asleep and the other is what we want to become/achieve in time.

When I first saw the banner of Howard Schultz (the owner of Starbucks) which says "DREAM MORE THAN OTHERS THINK PRACTICAL, it is written in the following way:

Dream more than others
think practical

This is very interesting.

There is no comma and the second line does not start with capital letter. But the first impression that I have is actually Dream more than others, full stop; and think practical is another sentence.

I see 2 sentences. And I find these 2 sentences work as good as 1 sentence. In fact, I see different thing in it. We all work our head off finding ways to live a better life, until we forgot to have dream of our own (except brain too actively working during the day and can't really rest at night and causes us to dream in our sleep). Some dream too much until they have no actual action to make it happen.

So this 1 sentence become 2 has really pointed out the key in making incredible things come true - We must dare to dream and never stop dreaming to become and achieve what we want to; and we must constantly put ourselves into practical thinking to work towards reaching it.

A castle built in the sky does not exist in real and those dreams are never going to come true. A fortress on the ground may seem strong but it is just a wall blocking people inside without having the dream to soar.

Build both together. Dream big and don't delay in start taking baby steps.




At the beginning of last century, there was a gathering in America and a physicist said to the audience that, from the way science was advancing, within fifty years, man will be able to fly. His audience burst into laughter, ‘men fly?’ One of the audience was a courageous bishop, who said, ‘professor, I want to assure you that only angels can fly.’ The name of the bishop is Milton Wright. This bishop had two sons named Wilbur and Orville.

Within a decade, his two sons became the first men to fly. They opened the aviation age”.

“What is the import of this statement?”

“We must learn to dream dreams. It is only in dreaming dreams that we can make what seems impossible today, possible. But you don’t dream dreams in a vacuum. Dream dreams from the basis of knowledge. The physicist could think of man flying because he understood the laws of physics. The bishop could not imagine it because he did not understand physics. Until we recognize that we live in the knowledge age and that it is a matter of continuous development, we will not be able to sustain progress.” (partly extracted from VANGUARD)