Quotes by David Foster Wallace
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”— David Foster Wallace
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'”— David Foster Wallace
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”— David Foster Wallace
“There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”— David Foster Wallace
“It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”— David Foster Wallace
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”— David Foster Wallace
“The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.”— David Foster Wallace
“A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”— David Foster Wallace