Future Shock Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Alvin Toffler

#3. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Alvin Toffler

#4. Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

#5. Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Alvin Toffler

#6. Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Orson Welles

#7. Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Alvin Toffler

#8. Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

Brian Eno

#9. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

Hayao Miyazaki

#11. Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people.

Ari Shapiro

#12. Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.

Stacy Bierlein

#13. Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

Jason Mitchell

#14. The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye.

Chelsie Shock

#15. If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

George Osborne

#16. Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

Dexter Palmer

#17. Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. In order for someone to follow you, you must be true to heart and purpose. This is true in any relationship. Someone may follow you for awhile without it, but not a lifetime.

Jean Williams

#19. And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs.

Joe Abercrombie

#20. It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Christopher Morley

#21. The realization that you can't predict the future
and mold it
could only come as a shock to an academic.

David Harsanyi

#22. Take your situation and pretend it is not happening to you. Pretend it is not important, that it doesn't matter. How much easier would it be for you to know what to do? How much more quickly and dispassionately could you size up the scenario and its options? You could write it off, greet it calmly.

Ryan Holiday

#23. Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin,
the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink,
nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin,
But by the quality of the thought they think.

Laurence Hope

#25. University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto - although that, of course, didn't mean much, since Roseto

Malcolm Gladwell