Quotes by Chilean authors

"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals"

"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring"

"Our best comes out when we have honest discussions"

"Hope is the raw material of losers"

"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past"

"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well"

"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power"

"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances"

"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today"

"The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter"

"If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone"

"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain"

"But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie"

"At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues"