How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURYDo what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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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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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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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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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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All education is self-discovery.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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