David Levithan Quotes

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

One of my biggest fears, in both my personal and business life, is residing too long in my comfort zone.

I think a lot of people are in relationships because they've been in them for a long time and they don't know how to end them.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

People fall in love with their identity with their own position and are often reluctant to leave.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.