"Every time you take a step, even..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.”
“I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow.”
More on Action
“Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.”
“Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”
More on Progress
“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
“That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.”