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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIt is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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