Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury

• Mistake
• Ignorance
• Cutting
• Faces
• Fine
• Beats
• Forty
• Blunt

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

• The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Understand
  • Discourse

• Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Dedication

• Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Material

• What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Morning

• This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Education

• To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She
  • Girl
  • Alone

• You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • May
  • Petty

• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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  • Attacking
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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  

  William Whitehead
  • Wisdom
  • Ambition
  • Fame

• You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.

  

  Mike Judge
  • Different
  • Laughing
  • Ass

• Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Powerful
  • Intuition
  • Intellect

• I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

  

  Bridget Fonda
  • Pretty
  • Mistake

• You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mistake
  • Ignorance
  • Cutting