23 Motivational Quotes by Ray Douglas Bradbury: Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 and his short story collections, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and The October Country. Here are 23 best motivational quotes by Ray Bradbury:
1. Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
2. Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens.
3. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
4. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
5. No one has time any more for anyone else.
6. We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
7. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
8. Remember, the fireman are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
9. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
10. A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.
11. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.
12. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.
13. Part of that show looks just great. But the old saying really applies: you can’t get something for nothing.
14. Let’s get out of the sun. This is a little too real. But I don’t see anything wrong.
15. We Earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
16. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
17. Keep your silly, feminine dreams to yourself.
18. The nightmare of living was begun.
19. My heart stopped talking because it didn’t want to talk anymore for a while.
20. You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
21. Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
22. When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
23. If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
