Top 1005 Quotes & Sayings by Brazilian Authors - Page 14

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.

My family, and my belief in God and Jesus, are the things which determine my life.

No more corrupt politicians stealing from us.

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.

It's always nice to be home and be able to see my family. It's the best feeling.

Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.

I'm a big fan of Wanderlei Silva; he's a big international idol.

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy.

I will always continue to work hard and keep my feet on the ground, regardless of whether I stay at Porto.

I think I always have to feel fresh start, because I am getting old!

Night was running ahead of itself.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

If you have a young student, don't let him take too many punches to the head. There's the right moment to do a hard training, but it can't be every day. A good coach takes care of your student.

I used to be very shy, much more so than I am now. It's great that I've improved in that regard. Every day, I'm getting better and less... embarrassed.

There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.

Fights are fights. It's a cliche, but it's true, you can never know how they'll go down for sure until you do it.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

When we lose, we don't have to change everything but correct things by working hard.

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.

At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.

It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.

I watch a lot of movies, and sometimes I watch the same ones a lot of times, so you get to learn a lot of words that way.

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

I understand almost everything in English. I am just not 100 per cent on numbers, so when I am out I am comfortable ordering food but when I am paying, I have to make sure I am paying the right amount!

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

My arrival at Porto wasn't easy and I had some difficulties. I spoke the same language but I felt very lonely. Two months later I caught tuberculosis yet at the time no doctor at Porto knew for sure what was wrong with me. I trained and played with the B team.

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

I have my principles. I'd rather die than change my principles.

The Premier League has a lot of intensity, a lot of physicality.

I think McGregor is a super fighter, he has great striking, has gotten better with his wrestling, has good jiu-jitsu, and gets a bit tired after the first or second round. I have a strategy to beat him, and I think I would win. I won't say I'd knock him out or submit him, but I know for sure my hands would be raised in the end.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

Anyone that is in the UFC, if you don't have a dream for the title, you're in the wrong sport. You can leave.

I always have to pay attention to exercise and nutrition.

Winning the Olympic gold was amazing.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.

I am not a magician of football.

I'm an amateur.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.

The whole thing about F1 that the bad boy is the winner is wrong.

The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.

I'm going to keep on making history.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

I have God in my heart.

The best tactics are those which lead you to a win.

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

My father is an athlete and I wish to be a hero like him.

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

I will not put money ahead of football.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

Often, players at clubs I have been at have asked me for prayers or advice. I prefer to show them things rather than to say things; with my actions, not my words.