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Thinking Quotes by Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury warns that over‑thinking can kill creativity and that believing in a single belief stops new ideas. He prefers to act without thinking, comparing it to jumping off a cliff and building wings on the way down. He also dislikes politics and believes a writer should stand alone, using strong metaphors to tell stories.

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Write. Don't think. Relax.

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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

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

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Work. Don't Think. Relax.

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“He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”

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And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

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Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

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I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

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I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

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I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour,…

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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…

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Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get…

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I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on…

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Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize…

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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we…

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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual,…

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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,…

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And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face…

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I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every…

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“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must…

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Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because…

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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I…

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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind…

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Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be…

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“But thinking is to be a corrective in our life — it’s not supposed to be a center of our life. Living…

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That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are…

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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

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People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I…

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I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed…

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The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.…

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“Let me alone," said Mildred "Let you alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can…

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Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new…

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I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect…

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I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority