David Foster Quotes

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• 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…
• I don’t really mean what I’m saying.
• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and…
• How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
• An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
• 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…
• You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't,
• Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
• 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…
• It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
• It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind…
• Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you…
• The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.
• 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…
• Try to let what is unfair teach you.
• It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,
• CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.
• 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…
• We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
• Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

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