Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Ray Bradbury

• Worry
• Reputation
• Dishonor

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• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Game
  • Focus

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Time
  • Love
  • Day

• You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Short

• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Money
  • Worry

• If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Worry
  • Potential

• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • She
  • Worry
  • Progress

• Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Worry

• She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll stationAnd a rock n roll dream.She's making movies on location.She don't know what it means.But the music make her wanna be the story.And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.Rollergirl don't worry.D.J. plays the movies all night long.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Music
  • Long
  • She

• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Children
  • Worry

• Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Life
  • Worry

• Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • World
  • Moments
  • Practice

• When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• Don't worry, we can fix that. I can fix that.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Worry
  • Fix

• A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Political
  • Chinese

• Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

  

  Bob Buford
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Needs

• The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Worry
  • Reputation
  • Dishonor