Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ray Bradbury

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• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • Politics
  • Go

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Diary

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Careers

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Ego
  • Realize

• Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Life
  • Journey

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• I want to run until I can't run.

  

  Bill Rodgers

• The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Difficult

• When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Certain

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Creativity