In honour of visionary, professor, artist, peacemaker, academic, humanist, and legend—Lynn Elen Burton—a global source of hope and inspiration, this student initiated forum offers all those impacted by the lifelong and continuing efforts of Lynn Elen Burton an opportunity to express personal gratitude.
31.3.06
In honour of visionary, professor, artist, peacemaker, academic, humanist, and legend—Lynn Elen Burton—a global source of hope and inspiration, this student initiated forum offers all those impacted by the lifelong and continuing efforts of Lynn Elen Burton an opportunity to express personal gratitude.
About Lynn Elen Burton
- Name:Chair
Department of Humanities
Simon Fraser Univ.
Links
- - Applied Foresight Network
- - Cyber-Salons Forum Dicussion
- - Homepage of Lynn Burton
- - World Future Society
- - World Future Studies Federation
- - Foresight Journal
- - Journal of Future Studies
- - Elselvier Futures
- - Seriousness of the Future Gallery
- - HUM 227-3: Introduction
- - HUM 327-4: Critical Issues
- - HUM 381-3: Creativity, Innovation and Visionary Thinking
The Study of the Future
Archives
q u o t e s"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
"There can be no great age without a great idea to inspire it." Alfred North Whitehead
"I touch the future. I teach." Christa McAuliffe
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"Lay plans for accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small." Lao-Tzu, 6th century BC
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
"Success comes in cans not can'ts." Lynn Elen Burton
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." Mahatma Gandhi
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Bible, Proverbs 28:18
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." Winston Churchill
"Action is eloquence." William Shakespeare
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." Dennis Gabor
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands and hopes we’ve learnt something from yesterday." John Wayne
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" George Orwell
"Our pathology is our opportunity." Marilyn McAuliffe
"You can’t predict the future, but you can prepare for it." Anonymous
"All progress requires change, but not all change is progress." Anonymous
"Light tomorrow with today." Elizabeth Barret Browning
"The optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is so." Henry J. Byron
"Change is certain, progress is not." E.H. Carr
"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is no instruction book came with it." Buckminster Fuller
"Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it . . . You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"Don’t worry about yesterday—learn from it. Don’t worry about the future—plan for it. Don’t worry about today—live it to the fullest." Daisy I. Austen
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Kahil Gibran
"If a person faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future they can have some control over their destiny." John H. Glenn Jr.
"All life is an experiment." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data." John Naisbitt
"If you are not riding the wave of change, you’ll find yourself beneath it." Anonymous
"Today is the tomorrow you feared yesterday." Anonymous
"Nothing is certain in life except change itself." Anonymous
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." Mao Tse Tung
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past." Madame Chiang Kai-shek
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice." Anonymous
"Living faith is a rock with roots." P. Kevork Thomaian
"Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it." Anonymous
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
"You cannot fulfill your dreams unless you dare to risk it all." Anonymous
"Perseverance will prevail where all others will fail." Anonymous
"Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood." Marie Curie
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Elmer Letterman
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen
"Sometimes we stare too long at the door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is opening." Alexander Graham Bell
"Imagination rules the world." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it." Eileen Caddy
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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