Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
When informed of the burning of books that had belonged to the independent librarians sentenced to long prison terms in Cuba's 2003 crackdown on dissent, the author of Fahrenheit 451 responded with these words: “I stand against any library or any librarian anywhere in the world being imprisoned or punished in any way for the books they circulate. I plead with Castro and his government to immediately take their hands off the independent librarians and release all those librarians in prison and send them back into Cuban culture to inform the people.” -- Telephone call of 4:30 p.m. EDT, 27 June 2005
Steve Marquardt 212 Sundance Pass Brookings South Dakota 57006 steve.marquardt@sdstate.edu judystev@brookings.net