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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.

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– Alfred Adler

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Magical

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Nelson Mandela

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– James Madison

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Martha Beck

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

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– William Blake

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Gandi

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

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Winston Churchill

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Eckhart Tolle

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Napoleon

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins