David Foster Wallace
Writer
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything."
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Fidelity
50 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it."
Saul Bellow
Novelist
"Fidelity is for phonographs"
Dan Brown
Author
"What really matters is what you believe."
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"What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."
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"Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money."
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"Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success."
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"Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life."
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"You have my whole heart. You always did."
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"O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
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"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."
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"Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation."
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"His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
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"I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?"
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"In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth."
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"The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal."
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