Alvin Toffler Quotes

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Alvin Toffler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FuturePeopleChoiceTurnOutMay

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Jerry Hall

BadCitizenNeverEvenVeryVoted

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Andrew Cuomo

ChangeBelieveClimate ChangeReal

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Robert Rauschenberg

MessSubconsciousAround

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

Anna Chancellor

WorkFamousBecomeFuneralWellDid

My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'

Michael Ian Black

CollegeYouNewSketchFirstReal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

LoveFearAlwaysPleasuresOur

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

Spike Jonze

DownI CanNobodyTrueNeverKids

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tony Hawk

AchievementThinkPersonalFirstUp

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

Michael Tubbs

WorkHard WorkFatherMotherValue

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

GreatTimeLightManWillNever

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

Jay Garner

DayBeginningWarBuildingStart

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Jon Watts

HomeTimeMeControlSomeoneYou

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