Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Ray Bradbury

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Never
  • Page
  • Facebook

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Day
  • Doing

• I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Work
  • Live
  • Day

• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Driven
  • Musically
  • Lyrically

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Dying

• Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Die

• I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.

  

  Jack Vance

• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Bored

• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Brain

• A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Night

• This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life

• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Technology

• There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?

  

  George Jackson
  • Power
  • Attack
  • Awe

• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Enemy
  • Creativity