If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Quote by Paulo Coelho
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Paulo Coelho Quotes
- I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
- I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
- Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
- If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
- I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
- When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
- I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
Best Quotes
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
- A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
- Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- There's no abiding success without commitment.
- Accuse not nature, she hath done her part Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.