Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

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• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • History
  • Man
  • Winning

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Football
  • Risk
  • Fire

• If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Fear
  • Sometimes

• I'm always finding a way to be successful.

  

  Jalen Brunson

• Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Up

• Our friends, the enemy.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Support
  • Sacrifice

• The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Mentor

• Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

  

  Jim Knight
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• If it wasn't for the fans I would probably be bartending somewhere.

  

  Keifer Thompson

• When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

  

  Chuck Pagano
  • Taken
  • Promise

• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

  

  John Huston
  • World
  • Together
  • Small

• I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.

  

  Kirsten Dunst

• But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Time
  • Period

• Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Up
  • Night
  • Trust

• If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

  

  Letitia Baldrige

• My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

  

  Leila Josefowicz
  • World
  • Trying
  • Light

• I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

  

  Gbenga Akinnagbe
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Enemy
  • Creativity