Dreamer

Feeling like a dreamer today, since that is basically all I have been doing lately, dreaming about my future house, future job, future life, it is a lot better then actually thinking about school and job applications. So here are some quotes that I am loving on dreaming.

Enjoy!

“Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.”

                   

“Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through” – Cinderella

“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.”

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.“

"Only Their Holes Taste The Same"

Today in class we were talking about creativity, and how it is such a powerful tool in today's business world. Our teacher showed us a video from the Behance Conference, where Ji Lee, the Creative Director of Google's Creative lab, talked about his creative project the single handedly propelled him into the position he is today. In the video Ji Lee talks about how he had all this creativity but could not be inspired to produce it, in today's corporate america. He mentioned how all of the ads, did the same thing, and came up with the same old tag lines and slogans, and how it is so hard to get creativity out in today's world. 

He then goes on to talk about his creative project, the bubble project, in which he simply placed plain, blank, white speech bubbles onto ads around New York City and let people's creativity flow. The feedback he found was remarkable.

It is amazing the power that you can acquire simply by giving people a creative platform on which to perform. Everyday people think of creative ideas, and witty things to say, yet theses everyday people don't have an outlet to put their creativity to use for the greater good of a company, or society. If more people like Ji Lee where given an outlet for their creativity who knows what great stuff could come out of it. 

I guess the point is, if you are creative, find an outlet for that, even if it turns out that you have to create that outlet for yourself. Or a word to the wise in terms of business, give more people and creative platform of which you can reap the benefits.

Here is the video:

http://the99percent.com/videos/6231/Ji-Lee-The-Transformative-Power-of-Personal-Projects

xoxo

Heather