Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

Marilyn Ferguson

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Time
  • Food
  • Talk

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Beautiful
  • Weather
  • License

• But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Change
  • Party
  • Supporters

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• These were not religious fanatics, I saw, not mindless servants or self-punishing ascetics, but were, instead, row upon row of intelligent, questioning, alert young men and women.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Religious

• Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Honor

• Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

  

  Mark Alan Webber
  • Good
  • Winning
  • Victory

• There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • Nature

• Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Nature
  • Victory