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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 3

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Letting Go, Should, Learn To Let Go

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Rejection, Addresses, Failing

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ignorance, Ifs

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.51, Hamilton Books

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

And Love, Should, What You Love

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

Children, Wall, Flower

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Future, Air, People

"Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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.

Teamwork, Believe, Hard Work

"Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

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.

Imagination, Want, Should

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Creativity, Creative, Surprise

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

Writing, Ideas, Design

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

Done, I've Learned

"Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Remembrances", www.npr.org. June 8, 2012.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Medicine

"Legendary Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury Passed Away Today at Age 91" by Ethan Anderton, www.firstshowing.net. June 6, 2012.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Ideas, Metaphor, Results

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Courage, Humor, Greatness

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

All education is self-discovery.

Discovery, Self, Self Discovery

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Country, Book, Fall

"Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451'" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

Faith, Morning, Teaching

"The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing". 2010.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

Teaching, Writing, Kids

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Ability, Grows

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

Should

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.

Hate, Believe, Fall

Interview With Rachel Goldstein, content.time.com. August 23, 2010.

Good to evil seems evil

Evil, Seems

Ray Bradbury (2017). “Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Writing, Years, Poetry

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