"The more you read, the more you calm…" — Robert M. Pirsig
"The more you read, the more you calm down."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site.
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
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When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
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When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of…
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
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I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so…
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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself…
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
— Willa Cather
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we…
— Nhat Hanh
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