Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

I want to keep my sanity.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Call me boring, but I can't handle negative situations.

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.