Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Quote by Doug Coupland

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the...

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the...

A ring is a halo on your finger.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a...

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a...

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling...

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling...

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in...

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in...

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you...

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you...

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as...

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as...

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state...

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state...

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that...

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that...

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but...

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but...

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear...

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear...

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except...

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes,...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes,...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and...

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end...

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end...