Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.