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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” quote by Alvin Toffler — Download Open image

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin Toffler

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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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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 job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are…

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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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