David Foster Wallace Quotes

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Care less about what other people think because at the end of the day, everyone is so worried about themselves & how they are coming across that nobody is actually judging as much as y'all think they are.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

I haven't really looked at myself as someone that needs to prove a point to anyone.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?