David Foster Wallace Quotes

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.

A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.