Douglas Coupland Quotes

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

Douglas Coupland

Quotes to Explore

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

D. A. Pennebaker
- Film
- Determination
- Head
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

Fat Joe
- Money
- Success
- Kind
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

Garry Shandling
- Up
- Experience
- Funny
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Sally Quinn
- People
- Power
- House
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Jack Canfield
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Camille Paglia
- Children
- Power
- Society