Quotes by Brazilian authors

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen"

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle"

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream"

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering"

"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control"

"The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love"

"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"

"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery"

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it"

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream"

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving"

"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes"

"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows"

"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere"

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act"

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

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time"

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse"

"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man"

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience"

"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage"

"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount"

"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money"

"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate"

"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside"

"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot"

"And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children"

"Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter"

"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions"