Paulo Coelho Quotes

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

You have to be open to everything.

Say yes to everything.

I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.

I'm open to life.

In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.

I think people don't really like change.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.