Douglas Coupland Quotes

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LearningTimeMomentSmallNever

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Andrea Bocelli

HistoryBestI AmGroupOperaBeing

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

John Kluge

TimeThinkingGoYoungWantAwful

Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.

Robert Lighthizer

GrowEconomyYearsDriftChina

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeWorkFamilyTimeI AmSelf

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Michael Faraday

KnowImportantThingsTakeHow

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Feinstein

MusicPeopleCareNameNumbersWho

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

WomenTimeVintagePressureIndustry

We are a company that can actually manufacture cars.

Robby Gordon

CompanyActuallyManufacture

South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.

Russell Crowe

GovernmentReal EstateYouPlace

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

FailureAgeSoulWrinklesBody

Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'

Auguste Escoffier

WorkMyselfBestCookingI AmChef

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 'reasoned judgment' of a bare majority of this Court - we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

Antonin Scalia

DecisionStepPeopleLawQuestion

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