Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

Marilyn Ferguson

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• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Live
  • Character

• I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Man
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Art
  • Past
  • Feeling

• The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Women
  • Confidence

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Project

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Know
  • Try
  • Weakness

• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Meetings

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Military
  • Alliance

• I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Open
  • Hometown

• I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • World
  • Great
  • Dream

• How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Father

• On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Writing
  • Stress
  • Pieces

• Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • True

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Stress