The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
-
-
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLER