Alvin Toffler Quotes

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • God
  • Character
  • Enough

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Doctors

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Know

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

  

  Jim Croce
  • Missionary

• And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Education

• If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models. India lacks an education system that is research- and creativity-oriented.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Business
  • Education
  • Creativity

• I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People
  • Life
  • College

• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • Education
  • Powerful