Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I don't really think, I just walk.
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
