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.
RAY BRADBURY
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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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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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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 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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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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