Don’t Think, Just Create

by Darren W. Miller on October 21, 2009

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”—Ray Bradbury

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