Quotes List

Quotes List from Pages and Blogs

Quotes List from 1000 Year Business Plan Blogs...

-- "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -- William Shakespeare

-- "Only you can control your future." -- Dr. Seuss

-- "How are your skills for solving 1000 Year Problems?...  Even of the most mundane kind.  The 1000 Year Toilet?" -- Sandra H. Rodman

-- "Do you really want to have to replace your now-much-more-expensive digital robotic refrigerator, toaster, microwave, coffee maker, security system, remotes, TVs, and wearable connected clothing -- every year?" Sandra H. Rodman

-- "Whatever it is -- think many decades or centuries ahead, and begin the StartUp now for the Analog Off-the-Grid versions. 1000 Year Thinking at its best." -- Sandra H. Rodman

-- "1000 Year Entrepreneurial Thinking: Whatever it is, scoop up all of the Analog versions now. Get creative with modifications for super-ecological eras." -- Sandra H. Rodman

-- "We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." -- Kurt Vonnegut

-- "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." -- George Kneller

-- If you go into The Analog Alternative -- or Off-the-Digital-Grid business, you want to look for every Entrepreneurial alternaitve. And you can think seriously about a 1000 Year Business Plan. " -- Sandra H. Rodman

-- "Analog: Make It Matter. Make It Last. Make It Destiny." -- Sandra H. Rodman

-- "The future depends on what you do today." -- Mahatma Gandhi

-- "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

-- "Will quantum computing lead to the transformation of human identity as well as perceptions of human reality?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "You've got to reach for the stars, not for the ceiling." -- Sam, Quantum Leap TV Show

-- "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." -- Niels Bohr

-- "With greater quantum-concept self-education and understanding of greater unseen realities as we enter a Quantum Era – might we find out that natural human creative intelligence has a vaster role...?" S.H. Rodman

-- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt

-- "Let us invent a vibrant and thriving 1000 Year Future together... Sustainable in mind as well as matter." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Live as if all life depended on it." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." -- Denis Waitley

-- "What if you had to guarantee that your invention & the device on which it is served--is 100% biodegradable, healthy for all life, no toxins left in the ecosystem, water, air, dumps, food chain--no harm to any life, sustainable for 1000 Years?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "It changes you forever, but you are changing forever anyway." -- Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

-- "If it's not thriving, if it includes toxins/elec/EMFs/pollution that harms any life, is it truly an "innovation" of the future, by the future, for the future?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

-- "Are we about to discover that our Prime Directive is sustaining great diversity of thriving life for millions of years on millions of planets. Is that us?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education..." -- Charlott M. Mason 

-- "What if we're here precisely to learn to help all life thrive & diversify on many planets?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Rules of the Road? For planetary civilizations where life systems  can be sustained millions of years here and on many planets...?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are." -- Anne Hines, The Spiral Garden

-- "Minds of the Future, by the Future, for the Future..." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Sometimes being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow." -- Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

-- "INNOVATION 2.0. Everybody survives. Everybody thrives. Everybody travels to other planets." -- S.H. Rodman 

-- "1000 Year Business thinking is, in effect, looking for the invisible. Is not all innovation? Is it not really intuition?" S.H. Rodman

-- "Innovation begins with looking for the invisible. Even unconsciously -- that's where the great "aha's" emerge... When we sense that "something" isn't there. It's missing. "There should be a way to... but I don't see it..." and "If we just had a ... Where are the ...?" have started most juggernaut adventures..." S.H. Rodman

-- "1000 Year Business thinking is, in effect, looking for theinvisible. Is not all innovation? Is it not really intuition?" S.H. Rodman

-- "The future is there...looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

-- "You can't program what you can't imagine." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "God does not play dice with the universe." -- Albert Einstein, the Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955. "Not only does God play dice but...he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." -- Stephen Hawking

-- "If you don't understand basic concepts in quantum mechanics, such as superposition -- you won't be doing much quantum programming." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "How many 'aha!' ideas does it take to make one quantum computer. How many quantum computers does it take to make one 'aha!' idea?" - S.H. Rodman

-- "The 'Goldilocks Spot' of Innovation: We can understand it enough to see it is genius and we want it, but it's still a great mystery how to do it or leverage it or turn it into a business." -- S.H. Rodman


-- "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller

-- "Is part of a fundamental planetary responsibility, living in higher harmony with others?" S.H. Rodman

-- " Interstellar, the movie, raises the issues of time travel and non-local consciousness communication methodologies -- as practical problems that we will have to solve. But with different minds. The very act of non-local travel changes consciousness -- as most Astronauts have reported." -- S.H. Rodman 

-- "Who will be unexpected customers in far decades coming? Isn't it time innovators begin to think of them now?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Become the 1000 Year Legacy entrepreneur." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "How will interstellar humans express the desire to create vastly innovative new kinds of social media? Are we missing out right now?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "How do you plan for who you don't know your species is going to become?" -- S.H. Rodman

-- "In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel 'burnout' setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective." -- The Dalai Lama

-- "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." -- Robert Reich

-- "Who Moved My Qubit?  will be a popular new book.." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Wouldn't a 1000 Year Car make sense if you're going to live in deep space? Hey -- it takes a LONG TIME to get a part from Earth if your carburetor goes out! " -- S.H. Rodman

-- "The first time I looked up and saw myself on the other side of the room -- Whew! It was such a shock that I didn't know what to do!!" -- Paul Hudlow

-- “New streets should be Twitter friendly and be named with hashtags up front. I’d build a house on ‪#‎LoversLane.” -- Jarod Kintz, Write like no one is reading…

-- "Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance." -- Alan Dean Foster

-- "Make it last, make it matter, make it destiny." -- S.H. Rodman

-- "Always, Always have a plan..." -- Rick Riordan

-- "You don't see with your eyes. You see with your beliefs." -- S.H. Rodman

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Future Quotes I like so well that I'll put them in future blogs...

"Entrepreneurship: Dabbling in wonder, as a living..." -- S.H. Rodman

"You can't think of something new, if you never schedule time to think." -- S.H. Rodman

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their brighter ideas closer together." -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers." — Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr), quoted in The Real Mars, 2004

"When meeting, be sure to ask people their stories, how they got where they are; watch them become unforgettable." -- Sandra H. Rodman

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved" -- William Jennings Bryan

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him go off the high dive." -- Marty Williams on Twitter

"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality." -- Jonas Salk

"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the stuff that weighs you down." -- Marty Williams on Twitter

"Lesson 1: Don't start flying around until you find out where you are." Oron, Air Traffic Controllers, S.H. Rodman

"You can go anywhere if you look serious and carry a clipboard." -- Marty Williams.  (I'd like to add this one to Air Traffic Controllers...)

"The future is there...looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Vernon Sanders Law via Marty Williams on Twitter.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller

The Power of the Work that Really Matters to You -- and the Benefits of failure, when you stick to what really matters to you:

"So why do I talk about the benefits of failure. Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that matter to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged." J.K. Rowling at Harvard, 2008 

"Life is art; live yours in color." -- Marty Williams on Twitter

"Life is an occasion. Rise to it!" Zack Helm, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future." - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Magic is the daily bread of the universe, and you, my friends, are starving." Oron, Parallel Universe the Musical, S.H. Rodman

"I love to revel in philosophical matters—especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major. — Mark Twain, letter to the San Francisco Alta California newspaper, August 1869.

"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future." -- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another." — Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE

"To be able to rise from the earth;
to be able, from a station in outer space,
to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets;
to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible;
to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe—
all this enlarges the human horizon . . ."

-- Norman Cousins, 1973