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Re:I'm a loser and I want to change that - now by ScottBurson on Sunday March 17, 2013 @02:55PM (#5390479)
Dreaming is necessary but not sufficient for great accomplishments.

This reminds me of a great line I ran into somewhere: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

EDITED to add: ah, through the magic of the Web I discover that this quote is from Thoreau. I've corrected my misquotation.

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Re:I'm a loser and I want to change that - now by jborden13 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @10:38PM (#5392085)
One of my prof's during B-school but it slightly less elegantly but it always stuck with me:

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is the only thing that matters.

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Re:I'm a loser and I want to change that - now by lebek on Sunday March 17, 2013 @10:58PM (#5392172)
I think the Thoreau quote is closer to an antidote than an analog of your quote.
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