Quotes By Doug Coupland
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
Doug Coupland
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
Doug Coupland
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Doug Coupland
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
Doug Coupland
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Doug Coupland
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Doug Coupland
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Doug Coupland
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
Doug Coupland
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Doug Coupland
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Doug Coupland
Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
Doug Coupland
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
Doug Coupland