Gordon Livingston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Past #Behavior
Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Dream #Trying #Unfulfilled Dreams
There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Intuition #Important #Maps
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Ideas #Firsts #Logic
Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Determination #Children #Long
If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Maps #Agree #Right Thing
Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Two #Knowing #Important
Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Weakness
We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Swimming #Thinking #Feels
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Letting Go #Art #Past

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