Alvin Toffler Quotes

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

I've learned never to say never.

You base your actions on a projected ending, which you actually don't know. However, when you reach the crucial point, and the pinnacle event doesn't occur, you just need to go on, and something else will happen.

I'd love to know what the future looks like.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.'

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

I always want my options to be open.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.