"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on……" — Alvin Toffler
"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future."
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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler has 55 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's…
— Barack Obama
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind.…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to…
— Alistair Cooke
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should…
— C.S. Lewis
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your…
— Tony Robbins
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to…
— Sri Chinmoy
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
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