Palau Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank ... It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry. — Guido Palau

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired. — Guido Palau

Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate. — Guido Palau

You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.' — Luis Palau

I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in. — Guido Palau

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing. — Guido Palau

When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex. — Guido Palau

Don't be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart. — Luis Palau

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation. — Luis Palau

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. — Luis Palau

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. — Luis Palau

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. — Luis Palau

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop. — Luis Palau

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere. — Guido Palau

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. — Luis Palau

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel. — Stephen Baldwin

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel. — Guido Palau

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them. — Guido Palau

A nation will not be moved by timid methods. — Luis Palau

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do. — Guido Palau

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea. — Guido Palau

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel. — Guido Palau

For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji. — Brian Skerry

I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy. — Guido Palau

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. — Guido Palau

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look. — Guido Palau

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself. — Guido Palau

Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place. — Guido Palau

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images. — Guido Palau

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything. — Guido Palau

As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say. — Guido Palau

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy. — Guido Palau

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down. — Guido Palau

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship. — Luis Palau

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life. — Luis Palau

I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it. — Guido Palau

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. — Luis Palau

I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful. — Guido Palau

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people. — Guido Palau

Was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most? — Andrew Palau

All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess. — Guido Palau