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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Achievement Believe Better Find

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

Passion Sports Woman Appreciate Who

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Butterfly Ugly Know Become Never

Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me.

People Me Think Care Someone See

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Man Circumstances Creature

My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the professional circuit when I qualified. I didn't know whether I was gonna make a dime. I didn't know anything but this one thing: I had some dreams, and I was gonna work harder than anybody out here to ply my trade.

Work Dreams Step Career Professional

When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I'd do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.

Work Day Strong Doing Injuries Tall

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Future Time Space Long Heritage Our

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Laughter World Real Release Relief

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.

Moment School Me Golf New Run

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

Time Experience Space Challenges You

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Bryant H. McGill

Talent True Poet Writer Ear

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Art Moment School Poetry Writing

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