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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.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Ray Bradbury

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Charles Dickens

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Charles Dickens

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Aristotle

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– J.K. Rowling

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– William Butler Yeats

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