Mal Fletcher quotes:
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Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.
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Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.
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Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.
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Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.
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Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.
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Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
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Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.
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Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
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Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.
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Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.
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Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.
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Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.
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Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.
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Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.
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The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.
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We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.
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Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.
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Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.
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Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat?
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Our greatest resource is the human resource.
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Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.
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Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.
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For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.
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GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.
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In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.
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People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.
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People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
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Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.
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The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.