Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• 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

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• 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

• I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

  

  Darrell Hammond
  • Star

• Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • House

• People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

  

  James Toback
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Measured

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

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • People
  • Struggle