"Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance……" — Alvin Toffler

"Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb"

— Alvin Toffler

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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not…
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to…
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without…
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the…
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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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