Shaping The Future Quotes

• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Art, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

  Barbara Jordan

  Government, Willing, Nations

  Oldiees Publishing, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barbara Charline Jordan, Richard Milhous Nixon (2014). “Great Speeches Collection 1 - AUDIO EDITION”, p.12, Oldiees Publishing

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• The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Computer, Internet

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• Strategy is about shaping the future.

  Max McKeown

  Business, Strategy

  Max Mckeown (2014). “The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results”, p.137, Pearson UK

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Media, Games

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• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  Seth Godin

  Generosity, Bravery, Fans

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.34, Penguin

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• The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

  Nate Silver

  Marketing, Noise, Signals

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin

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• You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

  Seth Godin

  Business, People, Marketing

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• All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

  Max Tegmark

  School, Past, Museums

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.509, Vintage

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• The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.

  Rick Bass

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Achievement, Decision

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Spring, World, Growing

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