Ziggy Marley Quotes

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.