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The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
The idea that “all men are created equal” is a gift to the world from the American Indian.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
Not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that’s why I talk so much.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
Whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
The stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.
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It’s important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally…mind control….
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.
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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
Mental reflection os so much more interesting than tv [that]it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant, but it never is.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
When you’ve got a Chautauqua in your head, it’s extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.
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Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.
Quote by -Robert M. Pirsig
To the ocean. That sounds right. Where the waves roll in slowly and there’s always a roar and you can’t fall anywhere. You’re already there.
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I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.
Quote by -Russell Crowe
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
Quote by -Russell Crowe
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
Quote by -Russell Crowe
At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.
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I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.
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I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.
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Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.
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Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
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If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
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I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.
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Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.
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I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.
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