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Pay Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
- It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
- Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.
- Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody,…
- How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and…
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