Alvin Toffler Quotes

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.