Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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