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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.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Carlos Castaneda

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– A wisdomism

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Albert Einstein

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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"

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Bruce Lee

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln