Debbie Ford Quotes

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

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 feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

True play is creativity.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.