Paulo Coelho Quotes

Communication is important.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.