Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

You should never meet your heroes.

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.