Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
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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.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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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.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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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.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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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!'
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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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.
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'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.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
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Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
