Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

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• When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Change

• What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Lesson
  • Remain
  • Donkeys

• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Gender

• When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Blessed
  • Laughing
  • Awareness

• If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Condition

• There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Future
  • Comics
  • Bonfire

• “The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”

  

  Carl Ally
  • Faith
  • Ideas
  • Person

• You're brilliant? Say something in algebra.

  

  Phil Silvers
  • Say
  • Brilliant
  • Algebra

• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  

  David Myers
  • Reality
  • Attitudes
  • Objective

• Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Progress
  • Looks

• For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Company
  • Priorities
  • Employee

• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Catching
  • Solid
  • Outfield

• But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Secret
  • Believer

• It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Dangerous
  • Disbelief

• The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Something
  • Embrace
  • Complete

• I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Famous

• Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Catching
  • Disbelief