Paulo Coelho Quotes
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
-
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
-
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
-
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
-
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
-
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
-
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
-
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
-
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
-
Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
-
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
-
Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.
-
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
-
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
-
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
