What did David Foster Wallace mean by: People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Fidelity, Motivational, Perfectionism, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Kindness, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Mediocrity is contextual. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Mediocrity, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Engineers, Important, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Soar, Worry, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Art, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Bees, Take Time, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves. Feraz Zeid, July 1, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Dream, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. - Luci Shaw
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt Essayist · England
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. - Jean Tirole
Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
I don’t really feel like you’re making a record unless you pay attention to it. - Jeff Tweedy Musician
Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours. - Jeffree Star Entrepreneur · USA