Playing god Quotes by Tom Butler-Bowdon

We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Edward Banfield's idea of the "long time horizon," says that more successful people look further into the future, judging their efforts and results in…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

This is the period from ages 60 to 90 in which many people have a new sense of freedom, kids grown up, retired from…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

With people having longer life spans, 50 is the age at which many people only just get into their stride. Consider Ray Kroc starting…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

We are all living longer lives now, so this extra longevity gives us second, third or fourth chances to succeed at something or change…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as the 30s…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

“The contribution of humanistic psychology to better relationships is recognized by the inclusion of Carl Rogers, whose influential book reminds us that relationships cannot…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

People race to achieve everything by a certain age in their life, be it 40, 50 or 60 - but with increasing life spans…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

“What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon