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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.

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

– The Dalai Lama

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Carl Rogers

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Carlos Castaneda

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Carl Rogers

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Maureen Cook

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Christopher Morley

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

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

– A wisdomism

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

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

– Steve Jobs

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– Magical

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Michelle Sedas

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie