An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYYou have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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