#cause

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#around #avoid #because #experiences #families

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#doing #eggs #heads #hear #i

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#apply #aspects #because #get #lesson

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #failure #genuine #pure

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decides #end #hope #means #money

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#dead #death #idols #less #makes

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #could #like #person #sleeping

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs. ↗

— David Coverdale

#because #been #beginning #deep #deep purple

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#because #character #composite #consistent #constantly