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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#avoid #each #formulae #letting #make

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#even #getting #lose #promising #start

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #lost #reality #simplicity

MySpace is an addiction. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#myspace

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible

Music for me, it demands full concentration. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demands #full #me #music

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #art #classical #i #i think

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#computer #difficult #read #very #your

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#beginning #earth #everything #going #made

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#abstract thought #creation #deny #development #fantasies