He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the … - David Foster Wallace

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The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

David Foster Wallace

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

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

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I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

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You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

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Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

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