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Futurist Andy Hines

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Andy Hines is Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist.

He co-founded and is currently on the Board of the Association of Professional Futurists, and has co-authored three books: “Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007),” “2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997),” and “Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994).”

His newest book, “ConsumerShift,” was published in 2011.

Andy has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.”

Most recently, he has appeared on several radio and television programs, including KRIV-26 News talking about the future of libraries and the CBS “Early Show,” to talk about an MTV-commissioned study: “The Future of the Youth Happiness.”

Click here to learn more: www.andyhinesight.com.

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy