You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Interpretation
Action is necessary for achievement; simply attempting is not enough.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of taking decisive action rather than just attempting or hesitating. It suggests that success comes from a commitment to doing rather than merely trying, highlighting a proactive approach to achieving one's goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming procrastination.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
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