"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high,……" — David Foster Wallace

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. - David Foster Wallace

"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything."

— David Foster Wallace

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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. — Robert Benchley
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in… — Samuel Chadwick
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. — Seneca the Younger
Depth has one address: fidelity in love.... — Laura Schlessinger
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous… — Grover Cleveland
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. — John F. Kennedy
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two… — David Brooks

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