Paulo Coelho Quotes

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

People are always waiting to be discovered.

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

There's a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.

There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.

I'm the most underestimated lightweight in the world.

I've been in the shadows my whole career.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.