Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Without education we can’t achieve anything.

I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today if it wasn't for years of education.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

When you have an education, you can make anything happen.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

My general idea about my work is that it's more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there's so much to do that there's no room for doubt there.

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.