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.
RAY BRADBURYI know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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