Genuine Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genuine Openness Seductive Syndromes Tourettes
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I will be judged as a human being by what readers find here. There are hazards to openness, but they seem minor compared with… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
“In a way, Openness looks like Extraversion. But Extraversion is a pattern of throwing open the doors and walking out through them. Openness is… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
“Openness is like a sport, we need to practice it every day to get the best ability to be open to others’ ideas after… — A.A. Alebraheem Copy Share Image
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. — Neil Kurshan Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies… — Ehren Kruger Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
