Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

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

Ray Bradbury

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• 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

• Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mother
  • Worry
  • Baby

• 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

• We just cannot worry about ourselves.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Worry

• I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • People
  • Book
  • Worry

• I'm not a control maniac.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Control

• Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Future
  • Free
  • Past

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Worry
  • Reputation
  • Dishonor