Oct 29 2008
Quoting Poetically: Herb Brooks on Being a Dreamer
Herb Brooks’ story inspired the 2004 film Miracle.
“You know, Willie Wonka said it best: ‘We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.’ We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams. I’m a dreamer.” - Herb Brooks, 1980 US Hockey Gold Medal Coach (Click here for more).
This law of life has been known by every great thinker throughout time - simply that that which is in a person’s heart makes up every atom, cell, fiber and muscle of who that person is. Some readers today may have a dream unrealized in the time they thought it would be. Some may be working long hours at a job totally unsuited for them - why? It may be that those people have lived another person’s vision. They read this today and ask themselves what their purpose is in this life. Yet, it is often said as a general maxim that the righteous need only look on what is imprinted on their hearts and whatsoever it is shall be achieved.
Wax a waxy dream!
Stumble It!
We write our own life story every day. A wise or just lucky person realizes this in youth which allows that life story to be a really long and juicy novel… It is what we make of it; but more importantly, it can only be what we see it might be. Thanks Mike! ~k