The National Endowment for the Arts posted these quotes by Ray Bradbury on their blog the other day (25 September 2015). I thought the quotes were very good, and wanted to share them with you. Here they are reprinted from their blog http://arts.gov/art-works/2015/our-top-ten-ray-bradbury-quotes.
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Stuff your eyes with
wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.
It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
We are cups, constantly
and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and
let the beautiful stuff out.
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.
We are an impossibility
in an impossible universe.
I spent three days a week
for ten years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than
college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education
for no money. At the end of ten years, I had read every book in the library and
I'd written a thousand stories.
There are worse crimes
than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
I'm never going to go to
Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets
and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Don’t worry about things.
Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to
have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes
everything and you grow.
I don’t believe in being
serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
You've been put on
the world to love the act of being alive.
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