David Foster Wallace Quotes

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Whatever interests is interesting.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

The students are kept so busy and are so fascinated by what they are doing that they have neither the time nor design for antics.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.