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"The power of habits is the stepping stone on the stairs of life."
"Are your habits and hygiene hindering your success or making a great first impression on your behalf?"
"One myth that has become established in the self - development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold."
"Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life."
"The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be."
"Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?"
"I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you."
Explore more quotes by David Foster Wallace
"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that."
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness."
"A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane."
"In short, not only was it surprising to be greeted in person with such enthusiastic words, but it was doubly surprising when the person reciting these words displayed the same kind of disengagement as, say, the checkout clerk who utters the words 'Have a nice day' while her expression indicates that it's really a matter of total indifference to her whether you drop dead in the parking lot outside ten seconds from now."
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