We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.


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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
LEO DUROCHER
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind o...
LEO BURNETT
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
LEO BURNETT
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
LEO BURNETT
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
LEO AIKMAN
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business ...
LEO BURNETT
Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY
In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith pr...
LEO BOOTH
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest c...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the str...
LEO ROSTEN
The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
LEO DUROCHER
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
LEO DUROCHER
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
LEO ROSTEN
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
LEO ROSTEN
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
LEO ROSTEN
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take...
JOHN LEO