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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

World Famous Doors Enough Forget

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

Culture Words Happy People Book You

I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.

Vacation World Weird Feel You Place

Just because it's in a movie doesn't mean it's real.

Just Because Mean Real Because Just

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Life Live Time Day Tomorrow Reach

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

Confidence Style You Back Lost Want

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.

Travis Bradberry

Personality Simple Employees Skills

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Work Confidence Dedication Result

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Children Feel Help Important Become

In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

Community Health Commitment Effort

Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it's been very authentic, so sometimes I'm super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I'm busy, and I don't. Sometimes I'm sad, and I post a sad picture.

Chiara Ferragni

Sad Happy Me Story Busy Picture

In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.

Brian L. Roberts

Technology Time Cloud You New Want

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

God World Find New Corner Spread

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