Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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