Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury
Arthur Murray Santa Monica
“Your actions speak so loudly; I can’t hear what you’re saying”
“Your life may be the only scripture others will ever read”
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”- Oliver Goldsmith
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes
“A well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.” — Dale Carnegie
“Being all talk speaks volumes about you.” — Frank Sonnenberg
“If your actions don’t live up to your words, you have nothing to say.” — DaShanne Stokes
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterward speaks according to his actions.” — Confucius
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.” — Anthony Robbins
“Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.” — Matthew Good
“Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.” — Simon Sinek
My life has always been about having a dream, talking about dreams, living my dream, working toward my dream, writing about dreams. I’ve also lived letting go of my dreams and having my dreams shattered and taken away. I am currently living the rebuilding of my dreams after the pandemic.
I’ve always tried to be a dream maker. I have known some dream killers. “Oh, you can’t do that!” “You won’t make it in your life” “That dream will never happen in your life” “I said I was part of your dream, but I can’t help you for a while”
Powerful forces have challenged my spoken words, spoken dreams. The death of both parents, and my own life partner. Selling my business. Starting over again.
When you are a dreamer, the words we use are so important. We must share our dreams, but not say what we cannot deliver. Yet, sometimes we say a dream that seems preposterous to others.
“All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.”
“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say ‘We’ll just have to see.’”- Dick Fosbury (1947 – 2023) American retired high jumper, Who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico games after inventing a revolutionary high-jump technique
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”- Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor
I always have a dreamer’s talk. I always have strong dreams that seem impossible to achieve. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. I have faith in my dreams.
How do you then live and speak to others? How will anyone ever truly trust you? First, say what you will do. Then say how you are going to do it. Then, take the first steps and invite others to go with you. Experience your victories and your failures, but strongly hold on to the successes.
We are judged heavily on what we say and what we do, yet I see others doing the impossible daily and they are deaf to the doubters and the naysayers. They do what they say and live their words. They make what they say a reality.
Suggestion: study these quotes. Then, study your dreams. Then, listen to your talk. Do you say and do the truth? Do you voice your dreams? Do you live your dreams for others to see?
My only answer at this point in my life is to move forward and let go of fear. The fire that surrounds our hopes and visions is an illusion. The fear is not real. Our circumstances are real, but the outcome depends on us.
Speak your hopes and dreams and then live them to the fullest.
Thanks for reading,
David Woodbury