George Leonard
George Leonard
George Burr Leonardwas an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He was President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, President of ITP International, and a former editor of Look Magazine. He was a former United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth degree black belt in aikido...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth3 July 1729
CountryUnited States of America
Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.
There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.
The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.
Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
Practice is the path of mastery.
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.
Education is... doing anything that changes you.
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.