Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Douglas Tompkins Quotes

Look at how fast technology is developing.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015

Topics

Technology Look Fast How Developing

For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on stage. Growing up as a dancer, that's how I'm comfortable in my body. It's about where you grew up and those things; it's a way of communicating your spirit to the world.

Me Growing Up World Feel You Body

Children learn what they live.

Live Children Learn

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

Live Business Day Politics Me World

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Great Thinking Behavior Achieving

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Music You Create Play Important Our

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Good Hate Think Doing Impressions

I have a green juice every day because it makes me feel more awake; it makes my skin healthier.

Day Me Green Feel Every Day Skin

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

Wilderness Care Find Say Write Out

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Trust People Think Everyone I Think

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

Work Architecture You I Can Know

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

Community Medical Research Believe

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

Richard N. Haass

Success Job Tools Right Policy

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Douglas Tompkins