Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYEvery 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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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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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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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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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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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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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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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