All education is self-discovery.
RAY BRADBURYYou’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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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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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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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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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget 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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Good to evil seems evil
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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