Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

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• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Creativity
  • Therapy

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• Creativity requires risk. So do exploration and innovation. Anyone who thinks outside of the box is taking a risk. Leadership brings many risk. Courage is exercised in the face of risk. Invest involve risk. Decision-making always mean a certain degree of risk.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Decision
  • Risk
  • Courage

• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

  

  David Amram
  • People
  • Today
  • Energy

• I have always loved fashion and feel it's another way to express my creativity. It's art and beauty combined.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Creativity

• A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

  

  Psy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  

  Charles Mingus
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Weird

• I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Experience

• I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Creativity

• I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Focus
  • Wise
  • Creativity

• People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Man
  • Door
  • Find

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Creativity
  • Secret