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

Quote by Ray Bradbury about thinking, self-control, creativity, things, enemies

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about attitude, day

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about heroism, day

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about future

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about work, good, good luck, love

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...

Quote by Ray Bradbury about affair, friendship, time, love

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about work

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about dream, people

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about miracle, common sense, sense

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about fall

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about love, fall, word

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about end, writing, idea

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about experience, idea

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about television, night, people

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about criminals, books

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about science, children

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about man, world

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about being

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about force, police, miracle, imagination, life

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about past, future