Ray Bradbury Quotes

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.

My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.

I daydream all the time.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.