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.
RAY BRADBURYHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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All education is self-discovery.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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