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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Beginning Best Experience Ideas Inspirational Life Possible Romance Science
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity Failure Ideas Ourselves Success Work Writing
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Forget Lesson Teaching Yourself
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Book Burn People Run World
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Act Alive Love World Yourself
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Beautiful Death Dream Eyes Inspirational Life Pay See Travel World
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Danger Greatness Life Stupidity Yourself
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

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