How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURYI 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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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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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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