David Foster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
-- David Foster

#Houston #Lasers #Beam
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out,
-- David Foster

#Art #Real #Bullshit
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't,
-- David Foster
CPR to those elements of whatâ€™s human and magical that still live and glow despite the timesâ€™ darkness.
-- David Foster

#Cpr #Darkness #Elements
The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.
-- David Foster

#People #Important #Care
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
-- David Foster

#Real #Sacrifice #Thinking
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
-- David Foster

#Crafts #Letters #Notes
Try to let what is unfair teach you.
-- David Foster

#Trying #Unfair #Teach
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
-- David Foster

#Winning #Self #Games
Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.
-- David Foster

#Moving #Mountain #Fiction
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality â€“ there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth â€“ actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
-- David Foster

#Reality #Gentleman #Heroism
Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
-- David Foster

#Voice #Fabric #Canada
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
-- David Foster

#Writing #Looks #Pieces
There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
-- David Foster

#People #Giving #Family And Friends
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
-- David Foster

#Blind #Certainty #Prisoner
We are who people think we are.
-- David Foster

#Life #Thinking #People
The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.
-- David Foster

#Views #Sun #Hell
I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.
-- David Foster

#Distance #Thinking #People
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.
-- David Foster

#Crazy #Military #Real
I donâ€™t really mean what Iâ€™m saying.
-- David Foster

#Mean #Really Mean
Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.
-- David Foster

#Kids #These Days
A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.
-- David Foster

#Team #Boys #Ideas
How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
-- David Foster

#Mean #Really Mean
Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.
-- David Foster

#Taught
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
-- David Foster

#Real #Empathy #Suffering
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?'Â And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'
-- David Foster

#Morning #Swimming #Boys
An ad that pretends to be art is â€“ at absolute best â€“ like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.
-- David Foster

#Art #Want #Art Is
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,
-- David Foster

#Alive #Conscious
It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.
-- David Foster

#Art #Lying #Differences

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