"If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
― Paulo Coelho
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Work
More From Paulo Coelho
- "In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."
- "You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
- "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."
More In Work
- "A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."― Chuck Jones
- "Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."― Coco Chanel
- "We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."― Thornton Wilder