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Alvin Toffler Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1928 - June 27, 2016

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Change Future Time Stress Short

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

Positive Good Growth Travel Impact

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

American Cookies More Anything Than

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

Jennifer Aniston

Wrinkles Human Happen Human Beings

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

John Frusciante

Ideas Use Record Lot Tape Recorder

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Learning Mathematics Childhood Story

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Love Love Is Night Racing Ice You

Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness.

Morning Darkness Tomorrow Think

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

Exercise Look Ridiculous Legs Plot

For most of America's history, people typically aspired to acquire 'a competency' rather than great riches. A competency meant the ability to comfortably sustain a household without depending on others. 'Competence' also meant being capable and reliable. The American Dream was that people who worked hard and capably could support their families.

Stephanie Coontz

History Great American Dream Support

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

Good Yourself Joy Thoughts You

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Faith People Believe Someone May

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Learning Children Language Long Dots

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