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Douglas Tompkins Quotes

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Parents Doing You Pleasure Out Get

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

Dog Time Moment People Me View

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

Music Born Always Pretty I Was Born

I am well. Do not worry about my health.

Rodrigo Duterte

Health I Am Worry Well About Am

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

Mother Spiritual Practice Parents

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

Think Internet Sex Person Way Never

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Life Age Me Loved Year I Can

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Start End Interesting You Look Go

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Challenge War Writing World Novel

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

Education Technology People Medicine

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Fly Little Surprised Built Were

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

Great Environmental Potential Social

Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

Responsibility Parents Role Model Us

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