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Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
Better Change Fear Past People You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
Change Argument Guards We Cannot Inside Only Emotional Open No-One Opened Another Cannot Either Us Persuade Appeal Each Gate
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
Success Attitude Teacher Time Change Innovation Regret Energy Conviction Lesson Every Complaint Conserve Spent Ability Learned Enabling Were Laboratory Person Achievers Central Realism Them Themselves Event
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Ferguson
Future You Liberate Past Potential Hour Any Your Choose
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Marilyn Ferguson
Better Sometimes Before Worse Get Things
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
Good Prevail Water Doctors Sense Aim Our Consideration Spin Over Heads Policy Self-Serving Common Common Sense Public Agendas Public Good Public Policy Who Keep Designed Below
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
Health You Fear Fears Seed Contains House Because Self-Knowledge Question Just Afraid Information Them Explore Your Illness Why Treasure
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action. Marilyn Ferguson
Faith Spiritual People Vision Lose Action Our Religious Gives Leaders New Institutions Occur Authority Viability Which Social Themselves Then Transplanted Awakening
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
History Change People Transformation Believe Society Meeting Critical Critical Mass Unprecedented Impact About Having Networking Almost Arithmetic Mass Sophistication Reached Undergone Geometric Effect Personal So Many People Energies Social Social Change Communications Many Brings
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. Marilyn Ferguson
Problems Stress Rather Renewal Than Experienced Chance
If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking. Marilyn Ferguson
You Change Stress Inevitable Transformation Radical Thinking Changes Way Bad Resulting Bad Thing Sharp Leads Itself Very Useful Thing Start
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
Change Generation Revolution Changing Our Minds Our Generation Outer Attitudes Greatest Human Human Beings Aspects Who Beings Lives Inner
We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance. Marilyn Ferguson
Democracy Reflection Become Our Outer Self-Acceptance Idea Disappointments Itself Ashamed Should
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
Work Politics Death Health Family Nature Science Learning Perspective Conspiracy Spirituality Community Society Birth Relationships Everything Respects Paradigm Embedded Sees Ecology Individual New New Perspective Arts Decentralized Autonomous Humankind
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition. Marilyn Ferguson
Government People Competition Power Seeking More More Power Individual Institutions Want Less Cooperation
We get 150 notices a week for seminars. Marilyn Ferguson
Week Seminars Get Notices
Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world. Marilyn Ferguson
Anger World Complicated Fear Control Too Distance Could Individual Taking Over Always Stimulated Method However Yes Accurate Expensive Procedure Far Euphoria Tedious
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
Our Admitted Only Through Absorb Attention Calculations Openness Although Brain Normal Effort Information Little Require Conscious Conscious Effort Consciousness Universes
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. Marilyn Ferguson
Nature Progress Important Understanding Incremental Ways Rarely Seeing Advances New Principles Real New Ways Sudden
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along. Marilyn Ferguson
Truth Class Dark Rules Ruling Ruling Class Unspoken Powerful Along Make Make Up Go Up
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it. Marilyn Ferguson
Nature Lie Victory Our More Revealing Discovering
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
Work You Change People World Will Responsibility Power Feelings Change Things Despair Other Feel Make Make A Difference Deaf Does Ultimate Impotence Hand Difference Which Justified Turn Your Cop-Out Things Ear
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
Light Invent Our Our Lives Relevant Having Steps Most Without Tradition Discover Us Create Next Map Lives
Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim. Marilyn Ferguson
Time Best Valuable Accident Victim Strategy Focusing Kind Distressed Deliberate Pursued Stuck Over Period Also Although Person Psychological Useful
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet. Marilyn Ferguson
Alone You Rain Too Late Too Late Case Make Forests May Planet Certainly Save
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall. Marilyn Ferguson
Change Behavior Important Our Backs Area Individuals Countries Most Until Wall The Most Important
If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement. Marilyn Ferguson
You Longer Movement Want Happen Happening Thing
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