Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Rappers are separated.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Each settlement was a little world by itself. They remained as much divided in their interests and affections as Christians and Turk.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I hate labels.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

I hate being categorized.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.

I don't like labels.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)