Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
RAY BRADBURYSometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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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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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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All education is self-discovery.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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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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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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