Attention Quote by David Foster Wallace

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within…

— David Foster Wallace

“It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same…

— David Foster Wallace

“If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't…

— David Foster Wallace

“Imagination can be concentrated by attention to build positive outcomes—harmonious structures, communities, technologies, even worlds—but it can just as easily be harnessed to create…

— Sol Luckman

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty…

— David Morrell

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal,…

— John Milton

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

— Thomas Merton

There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have…

— Charles Bukowski

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And I know, because I've been there, that there is a hellworld where you're always expected to have an opinion about everything all the…

— Michael Herr

Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me…

— Bertolt Brecht

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

— J.P. Moreland