Paulo Coelho Quotes

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Art is born in attention.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.