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David Foster Quotes

You get to decide what to worship Picture Quote #1

I’m probably wouldn’t do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. ‘Do what you love.’ I know I did Picture Quote #1

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out, Picture Quote #1

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I’m not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, ‘You have to play it like this,’ or I tell the drummer, ‘It’s got to be like this.’ Picture Quote #1

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out, Picture Quote #1

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell Picture Quote #1

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The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info Picture Quote #1

Tennis’s beauty’s infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win Picture Quote #1

We are who people think we are Picture Quote #1

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean Picture Quote #1

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t Picture Quote #1

The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people Picture Quote #1

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Try to let what is unfair teach you Picture Quote #1

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible Picture Quote #1

Don’t do what you’re taught to do, do what you love to do Picture Quote #1

Fiction either moves mountains or it’s boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass Picture Quote #1

I’ve noticed that, while I can’t help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance Picture Quote #1

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one Picture Quote #1

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It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out Picture Quote #1

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested Picture Quote #1

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing Picture Quote #1

There’s an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there’s an evolutionary imperative why we don’t give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn’t function Picture Quote #1

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn’t manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn’t totally selfish, and finding meaning. It’s a struggle Picture Quote #1

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You get to decide what to worship (David Foster Quotes) I’m probably wouldn’t do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. ‘Do what you love.’ I know I did. (David Foster Quotes) It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out, (David Foster Quotes) When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I’m not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, ‘You have to play it like this,’ or I tell the drummer, ‘It’s got to be like this.’ (David Foster Quotes) This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out, (David Foster Quotes) The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell (David Foster Quotes) The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info (David Foster Quotes) Tennis’s beauty’s infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win (David Foster Quotes) We are who people think we are (David Foster Quotes) How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean (David Foster Quotes) You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t (David Foster Quotes) The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people (David Foster Quotes) Try to let what is unfair teach you (David Foster Quotes) We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible (David Foster Quotes) Don’t do what you’re taught to do, do what you love to do (David Foster Quotes) Fiction either moves mountains or it’s boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass (David Foster Quotes) I’ve noticed that, while I can’t help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance (David Foster Quotes) It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one (David Foster Quotes) It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out (David Foster Quotes) Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested (David Foster Quotes) The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing (David Foster Quotes) There’s an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there’s an evolutionary imperative why we don’t give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn’t function (David Foster Quotes) My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn’t manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn’t totally selfish, and finding meaning. It’s a struggle (David Foster Quotes)