"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
― Alvin Toffler
More From Alvin Toffler
- "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."
- "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."
- "One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition."
More In Change
- "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."― Jim Rohn
- "Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know."― Russell Baker
- "Change is inevitable. Change is constant."― Benjamin Disraeli