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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.

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Carl Rogers

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Magical

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

– E.B. White

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– William Blake

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Anita Roddick

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry