A Future So Bright Quotes

“When you accept optimism as a default, you can assess your circumstances quite candidly and work toward the best outcome. Pessimism, after all, is no more than acceptance of the worst. Optimism means you have to work for the best.”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“Many of the reasons why digital transformations, strategic transformations, and cultural transformations sputter, stall, or fail entirely is because they meet with human resistance to change on a personal level.”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“The most human-centric way to think about innovation is to ask, “What is going to matter?”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“Aim to be on the right side of history. Years in the future, when people look back on the defining moments of our present era, make sure your leadership counted for something.”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“Can we do a better job of solving the problems that humanity faces if we behave as though—not wondering if—we can?”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“The best results come about when we not only visualize the best possible future but also make a plan to commit ourselves to achieving it.”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

“Strategic Optimism is not about ignoring the limitations, risks, or harms that do exist; in fact, it’s about acknowledging the full reality of the current situation and the full range of possible outcomes, mitigating the worst outcomes, and working diligently toward achieving the best.”
― Kate O'Neill, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World