Quotes by canadian authors

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. Douglas Coupland

Kindness You Impulse Act

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. Douglas Coupland

Fashion People Stream Unless Out Never Head Becomes Rock Stylish Brain Brain Damage Hit Person Suffer Fashionable Damage

Star Trek characters never go shopping. Douglas Coupland

Shopping Trek Characters Never Go Star Star Trek

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. Douglas Coupland

Hope Time Myself Change People World Paradoxically Gives End End Of The World Improvement Form Happening Us Many Included

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. Douglas Coupland

Everywhere Tend Look

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Douglas Coupland

Politics Loneliness Religion Sex Out Clears Subject Forget Room

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. Douglas Coupland

Love Depression You Taking Lots

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant. Drake

Me Noise People Walk Will Boo Relevant Arena Days Know Cheer Because Sounds Same Just Might Then Lets

I'd rather tell you how I really feel. Drake

You Tell Rather Feel How Really

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. Drake

Day Great One Day Whenever Dying Dad

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it. Drake

Say Charm Had Knowing Always

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. Drake

Favorite Marvin Gaye Emotion Sade Documented Always Green Artists Al

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. Elizabeth Arden

Reputation Makes Repetition Customers

I only want people around me who can do the impossible. Elizabeth Arden

Me People Impossible Only Around Want Who

The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity. Elizabeth Thornton

Time You Key Old Circuit Respond Responses Able Mental Neural Driven New Brain Referred Model Models Often Automatic Transforming Creating Your Connections Each Based Each Time Actually Differently Interrupt

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Emily Carr

You Old Spring Out Vital Seem More Inspiration Contacts Feel Dead Fresh Go Get Oh Want Old Things Searching Things

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old. Emm Gryner