"Future shock is the disorientation that affects an……" — Alvin Toffler
"Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow."
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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
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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…
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not…
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make 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…
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without…
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the…
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as…
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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
— David Byrne
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
— Amy Chua
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
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