Pele Quotes

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

… people are far from acting generally according to the dictates of their interests, but oftener in consequence of their passions, though it may even prove injurious to their interests.