"It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and……" — Robert M. Pirsig

"It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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