Ray Bradbury Quotes

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

I feel open to anything.

I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.

You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?