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Douglas Tompkins Quotes

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Understanding Become More Capable

Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the world on a particular afternoon. But I did not divorce my reticence in a single sharp break. Rather, I seeped out like a spreading wine stain.

Andrew Solomon

Experience People Me World Wine Ask

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

Amitava Kumar

Language Meaning Enjoy Make Ways

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

Work Leadership Great Start Way

Man is a child of his environment.

Shinichi Suzuki

Man Child Environment His

Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what's happening while it's happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars - whatever you want to call it.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Stars Business God Rest Forward You

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

Mickey Rooney

I Am People Me Think Short Divorce

We'd take records you'd never hear in clubs and make them into club tracks. We were doing B-sides on records that had nothing to do with the songs, and calling them Masters at Work dubs.

Little Louie Vega

Work Doing You Nothing Never Club

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Dennis Farina

Good Think Actor Good Actor Working

Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.

Christina Milian

Work Faith Practice People Work Hard

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

Chuck Robb

Man I Am Circumstances Question Am

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Born Earth Evolution Something Laws

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

Sharad Pawar

Size Production Productivity Been