Brain Quotes by Douglas Coupland

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

— Douglas Coupland

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

— Douglas Coupland

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

— Douglas Coupland

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die.…

— Douglas Coupland

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

— Douglas Coupland

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain…

— Douglas Coupland

Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them…

— Douglas Coupland

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the…

— Douglas Coupland

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of…

— Douglas Coupland

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

— Douglas Coupland

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of…

— Douglas Coupland

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy…

— Douglas Coupland

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no…

— Douglas Coupland

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.…

— Douglas Coupland

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the…

— Douglas Coupland

“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come…

— Douglas Coupland

But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk…

— Douglas Coupland

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on…

— Douglas Coupland