It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness. . . If you talk about … - Robert M. Pirsig

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People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

Robert M. Pirsig

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness. . . If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Lying, Knows, Ifs, Nothingness, Zen

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A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

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Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

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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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My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

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A much more radical conclusion. . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote. . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.

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Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities. . . We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

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