That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. - David Foster Wallace

You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

ompared with many talk-radio hosts, John Ziegler is unusually polite to on-air callers. Which is to say that he doesn't yell at them, call them names, or hang up while they're speaking, although he does get frustrated with some calls. But there are good and bad kinds of frustration, stimulation-wise. Hence the delicate art of call screening.

... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.