Quote by Alvin Toffler
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we i

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. – Alvin Toffler

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. – Alvin Toffler

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Change
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon well need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

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Society
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. – Alvin Toffler

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Age
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. – Elvis Presley

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Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. – Charles Kettering

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Change

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. – Saigyo

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Change

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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. – Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. – Edward de Bono

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You know you’re a skydiver when you analyze every flag you see in terms of it’s too windy/not too windy to jump. – Author Unknown

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The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. – Lawrence Kasdan

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