“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.” PeopleThinkingI CanHelpingCareMoralSafeDistanceEnvyNervousNervesAdmiring Author:David Foster
“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.” PeopleThinkingRealCrazyMilitaryGeniusReal Genius Author:David Foster
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantRealCareAbleLostUnderstandingRaceAttentionSacrificeAwarenessDisciplineInfiniteConstantSettingEducatedSettingsAlternativesRatsPettyDefaultUnconsciousnessRat RaceReal Freedom Author:David Foster
“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.” PeopleIfsLoveGivingFunctionOur FamilyCrapFamily And FriendsImperatives Author:David Foster
“The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...” PeopleInspirationalKindImportantCareAbleFreedomSacrificeHelping HandCaring For OthersJestUnconsciousnessRat RaceReal FreedomInfinite JestAwareness Of Others Author:David Foster
