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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Ray Bradbury

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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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Life Love Time Yourself
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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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
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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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
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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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Design Ideas Myself Need Wake Up Writing
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Destroy Inspirational Reality Writing Yourself
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Effort Growth Independence Inspirational Learning Wings
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
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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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Audience Celebration Creation God Job Spiritual
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
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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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science Yourself
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Book Fools Poet Writing
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Acceptance Choice Deep Rejection Wisdom Writing
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Complete Darkness Ourselves Soul Try
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Athlete Experience Preparation Quantity Run
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
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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Imagination Life Listening Love Yourself
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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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Simplicity Try Yourself

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

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