Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Marilyn Ferguson quotes

American - Writer

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher. Marilyn Ferguson
- Ability
- Were
- Regret
- Person
- Conserve
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. Marilyn Ferguson
- Than
- Rather
- Stress
- Renewal
- Experienced
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson
- Emotional
- Us
- Each
- Only
- Inside
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition. Marilyn Ferguson
- Our Lives
- Us
- Relevant
- Next
- Without
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison. Marilyn Ferguson
- Pale
- Will
- Renaissance
- Going
- Make
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Marilyn Ferguson
- Better
- Things
- Get
- Before
- Worse
The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics. Marilyn Ferguson
- Paradigm
- Autonomous
- New Perspective
- Humankind
- Spirituality
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history. Marilyn Ferguson
- Social Change
- Mass
- Brings
- Arithmetic
- Having
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
- Your
- Contains
- Information
- Fears
- Because
The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment. Marilyn Ferguson
- Experiment
- Ideas
- Positive Thinking
- Any
- Actively
We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.' Marilyn Ferguson
- Learn
- Value
- Think
- Acknowledging
- About
Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war. Marilyn Ferguson
- Than
- Love Is
- Better
- Everybody
- Knows
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness. Marilyn Ferguson
- Through
- Human
- Break
- Limits
- Past
You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity. Marilyn Ferguson
- Comfortable
- You
- Confident
- More
- Productive
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear. Marilyn Ferguson
- Responsibility
- Impotence
- Things
- Hand
- Justified
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Ferguson
- Your
- Liberate
- Past
- Any
- You
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along. Marilyn Ferguson
- Ruling Class
- Make Up
- Class
- Ruling
- Up
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. Marilyn Ferguson
- Agenda
- Certain
- Powerful
- Radical
- Elements
I didn't intend to go into the seminar business. Marilyn Ferguson
- Seminar
- Intend
- Go
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. Marilyn Ferguson
- Your
- Strangers
- Friends
- Autobiographies
- Minor
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Marilyn Ferguson
- Who
- Inner
- Greatest
- Minds
- Human
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. Marilyn Ferguson
- Universes
- Conscious
- Our
- Information
- Consciousness
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. Marilyn Ferguson
- Understanding
- Progress
- New
- Incremental
- Ways
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense. Marilyn Ferguson
- Self-Serving
- Public
- Doctors
- Prevail
- Public Policy
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it. Marilyn Ferguson
- More
- Lie
- Victory
- Our
- Discovering
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. Marilyn Ferguson
- Every
- Ultimately
- Deeply
- Know
- Side