Sentences with phrase «dream crushers»

But that said, beware of Dream Crushers poseurs of things «realistic» and feign concerns about your welfare, lest you be unaware of your own folly, on way to some dream.

As I grew up, I encountered other dream crushers and I am sure you know your own.

The worst thing about dream crushers is that when you are younger and a fledging Creative, you actually believe them.

And last, dear Dream Crushers, simply let us do what we need to do in this world while we are in it.

But beware of the negative dream crushers.

What is a dream crusher?

Fourth - to the dream crushers, whenever you think you are being a realist or hide behind being «sensible», please check the look in our eyes.

Dream crushers were, to me, at first, those teachers that told you to colour inside the lines, to draw a tree this way, and recite a poem that way.

It's an olive branch to the Dream Crushers that encourages them to abandon their pursuit of dream snuffing.

Having a Dream Crusher as a gatekeeper is like giving a bitter civil servant having the power of a brilliant, possibly society changing emigrant standing hopeful in front of him.

In all optimal worlds, a teacher can be a mentor and leader and inspire you to greater heights in the safety of their tutelage (read my In Praise of Music Teachers) but the dream crusher variety were the ones that felt better when things were safe and orderly and the inner and outer rule books were followed.

It is the basic red flag - the first line of defence a dream crusher will call upon.

ember, long forgotten from the dream crusher / gatekeepers they might have encountered for one, two, who knows how many, life times and generations, before.

Many a dream gets shelved and stuffed into darkness simply for encountering a dream crusher at an inopportune, embryonic point in creative gestation - usually when one is looking for that thing called positive feedback.

Dream crushers are editors that tell you each new idea is something that will never appeal to readers; agents that tell you missed what is marketable and «selling» these days, a publisher who asks that you «write more like another author with more sales» and even a tough restaurateur that once informed me, as I stood at his counter with a slab of cake in hand as a sales sample, that «no one will eat something called carrot cake.

Dream crushers are the first ones to say «no», «you can't» «it won't work», «because that's the way we've always done it», «can't you be like the rest of them», «it is ok as a hobby but can you earn a living that way?»

(Of course, sometimes they need a bank loan and woe to the entrepreneurial Creative that meets up with a Dream Crusher as a bank manager).

Marcy Goldman This is request to a group of people I call, with equal amounts of fatigue, angst and compassion, the «dream crushers».

Dream crushers are those bosses that refute every new idea you bring to the office or meeting, boyfriends that half listen to your aspirations, lovers that simply wait till you are finished waxing lyrical over something that stirs your heart to say, «pass the salt».

To the Dream Crushers... (Or, Negativity casting a shadow on your North Star?)

Creatives are not egocentric (although some can be - just as Dream Crushers can be) but they are driven to express something that is so innate and primal that they could not extinguish it (only waylay it) if they tried.

A caveat: Dream crushers are not the same as positive people who offer sound, pragmatic, tempered, caring advice.

My hunch is it is probably the lack of that nurturing is what explains 90 % of what makes Dream Crushers tick and become dream crushers to begin with.

Most worrisome is the fact that many a Dream Crusher is also a gatekeeper to those of us who positively yearn to get our voices out.

what a dream crusher!

I'm a dream crusher, it's what I do.

Unfortunately for them their ride will end at the hands of Captain Sam «dream crushers» Sternberg and crew who make it 6 straight Playoff victories dating back to All Sports Series.

Successful authors and business people learned to ignore the naysayers and dream crushers.