11 Quotes & Sayings By Laurence Gonzales

Laurence Gonzales is a best-selling author and the founder of the Institute of Creative Leadership. He is also the President and CEO of The Gonzales Group, an international leadership consulting firm. Gonzales is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. A Harvard Law School graduate, Gonzales is admitted to practice in all U.S Read more

Courts and before all United States Federal Courts, as well as before most State Courts. He received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it. Laurence Gonzales
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He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, “completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail. Laurence Gonzales
Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash....
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Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. “You’re going to die when you’re supposed to die. Laurence Gonzales
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Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-white ankle bones where her feet used to be. I had never seen the whiteness of bones that are freshly exposed like that. Laurence Gonzales
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As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up, ” Martz said. “I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him. Laurence Gonzales
Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.
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Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion. Laurence Gonzales
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The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits. Laurence Gonzales
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To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such. Laurence Gonzales
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But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2, 000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding. . Laurence Gonzales
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The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. Laurence Gonzales