Gregg Levoy > Quotes

“He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.”
― Gregg Levoy

“We must therefore be willing to get shaken up, to submit ourselves to the dark blossomings of chaos, in order to reap the blessings of growth.”
― Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're failing anyway.”
― Gregg Levoy

“Abraham Maslow even believed that self-actualizing types are “those who make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day.”
― Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

“The more of the world we can identify with and the wider our field of affections, the bigger we are and the less we have to try to prove it.”
― Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

“During the aerial bombing of London in World War II, damage to the Natural History Museum allowed light and moisture to enter the buildings, and mimosa seeds that had been brought over from China in 1793 and stashed in wooden collection cases suddenly awoke from their 150-year sleep and began sprouting. We, too, are revivable. No matter how long or deep the sleep, the soul is always willing to awaken.”
― Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

“Endurance is the knowledge that success takes time.”
― Gregg Levoy

“the closer we get to another, the more apparent it is that they are indeed an other,”
― Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

“A 2012 Gallup poll of employees in 142 countries found that, on average, 87 percent of them are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” (63 percent and 24 percent, respectively), and only 13 percent were “engaged.”
― Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion