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Top 20 David Foster Quotes (2024 Update)

David Foster Quote: “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?’ 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?’”

1. “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?’ 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

David Foster Quote: “Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.”

2. “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

David Foster Quote: “The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.”

3. “The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.”

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David Foster Quote: “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.”

4. “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

David Foster Quote: “You get to decide what to worship.”

5. “You get to decide what to worship.”

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David Foster Quote: “Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.”

6. “Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.”

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David Foster Quote: “We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible.”

7. “We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible.”

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David Foster Quote: “The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

8. “The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

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David Foster Quote: “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.”

9. “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

David Foster Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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David Foster Quote: “Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”

11. “Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”

— David Foster

David Foster Quote: “We are who people think we are.”

12. “We are who people think we are.”

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David Foster Quote: “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.”

13. “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

David Foster Quote: “An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.”

14. “An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.”

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David Foster Quote: “How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”

15. “How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”

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David Foster Quote: “I don’t really mean what I’m saying.”

16. “I don’t really mean what I’m saying.”

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David Foster Quote: “Try to let what is unfair teach you.”

17. “Try to let what is unfair teach you.”

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David Foster Quote: “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.”

18. “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

David Foster Quote: “It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.”

19. “It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.”

— David Foster

David Foster Quote: “Lightfoot’s voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.”

20. “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

David Foster Quote: “Fiction either moves mountains or it’s boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.”

21. “Fiction either moves mountains or it’s boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.”

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David Foster Quote: “Don’t do what you’re taught to do, do what you love to do.”

22. “Don’t do what you’re taught to do, do what you love to do.”

— David Foster

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