Debbie Ford Quotes
If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
-
The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
-
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
-
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
-
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
-
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
-
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
-
Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.
-
The American public has a right to know what's going on.
-
The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
-
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
-
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
-
If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
