Quotes by David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so l — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven b — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within you — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being cons — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so l — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to ge — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life