Capacity Quote by Alvin Toffler

“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”

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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb”

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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a…

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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 will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed…

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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 the task, not the…

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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.…

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Never in history has distance meant less.

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“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb”

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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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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we…

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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

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