Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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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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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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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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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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