Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

Marilyn Ferguson

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Cutting

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Home
  • Past

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Real
  • Home
  • Baby

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Live
  • Die

• I don't want to follow the herd.

  

  Alain Robert

• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Destiny

• Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • Money
  • Worry

• And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • People
  • Struggle