Paulo Coelho Quotes

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.