Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Leo Buscaglia

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• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Work
  • Brain

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

  

  Nate Holland
  • People
  • Small
  • Amazing

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Soul
  • See
  • Smell

• I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Love
  • Doing

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Free
  • Running
  • Childhood

• It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Time
  • World
  • Strange

• 'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Never

• At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Growth
  • Company
  • Marketing

• I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Food
  • Passionate
  • Cook

• I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Party
  • Diversity

• I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Mean
  • Feel
  • Complain

• If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Artist

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

  

  David Gest
  • She
  • Running

• I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

  

  John Kruk
  • Home
  • Baseball

• I've been flyin' down the road,And I've been starvin' to be alone,Independent from the scene that I've known.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Alone
  • Road
  • Independent

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia