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Strategy is about shaping the future.
Sep 25, 2025
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future
The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.
You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?
Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
He who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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