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Douglas Tompkins Quotes

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Work People Clothes Selling

I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.

Great Man Great Man Friendly He

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Jessica Savitch

Woman News Anchor Never First Seen

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

Thought Break Take Just Publishing

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

Art Flying Think Would I Think Put

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

Day Achievement Organization Picture

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Future Environmental Legacy Belief

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

Communication Business School Church

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Job Repetition Way Break Bring Get

I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

Change Best I Am People Play Tennis

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

Colleen Haskell

Job Me Think Perfect Know Right

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Me Swing Over Afraid Head Going

The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Invisible Always Us Unseen Humans

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