Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.

I've never been one to try to find a niche for myself. I've always tried to wait and see what comes.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

I used to have a five-year plan when I was younger. But that's changed. Technology is changing every day. So you have to live in the day. You have to see what the opportunities are, and go for them.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.