"Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity." — Robert M. Pirsig

"Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of…
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. — Rita Mae Brown
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When… — Woodrow Wilson
The vision always precedes reality. — Unknown Author
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. — Chuck Missler
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. — Emanuel Swedenborg
When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a… — Lilian Whiting
The vision always precedes the realization — Lilian Whiting
Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit... But commitment always precedes achievement. — John C. Maxwell
It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance. — Zig Ziglar
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips
Small crimes always precedes great ones. — Jean Racine

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