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I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is this personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. ~ Richard Dawkins
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Richard Dawkins
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
It's possible to search in vain for that point where your running feels "just right." As I considered the point of balance for myself, I was reminded of a quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. He wrote: "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. ~ John "The Penguin" Bingham
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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves ... There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. - ROBERT PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~ Donella H. Meadows
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Donella H. Meadows
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind [...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this - that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes - pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts - all of them fixed and inviolable., and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forger work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You're always being fooled, you're always making mistakes, and a mechanic who has a big ego to defend is at a terrific disadvantage. If you know enough mechanics to think of them as a group, and your observations coincide with mine, I think you'll agree that mechanics tend to be rather modest and quiet. There are exceptions, but generally if they're not quiet and modest at first, the works seems to make them that way. And skeptical. Attentive, but skeptical. But not egotistic. There's no way to bullshit your way into looking good on a mechanical repair job, except with someone who doesn't know what you're doing. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
The more you look, the more you see. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
You can reduce your anxiety somewhat by facing the fact that there isn't a mechanic alive who doesn't louse up a job once in a while. The main difference between you and the commercial mechanics is that when they do it you don't hear about it - just pay for it, in additional costs prorated through all your bills. When you make the mistakes yourself, you at least get the benefit of some education. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind. ~ William Zinsser
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by William Zinsser
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. Theres a very close analogue there. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Quality tends to fan out like waves. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical thought which says I shouldn't be getting into a complex assembly I don't know anything about. I should have training or leave the job to a specialist. Thats a self-serving school of mechanical eliteness I'd like to see wiped out. [ ... ] You're at a disadvantage the first time around it may cost you a little more because of parts you accidentally damage, and it will almost undoubtedly take a lot more time, but the next time around you're way ahead of the specialist. You, with gumption, have learned the assembly the hard way and you've a whole set of good feelings about it that he's unlikely to have. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That's what makes it interesting. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
The more you look, the more you will see. ~ Roger Tory Peterson
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Roger Tory Peterson
There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands. ~ Carolyn Porco
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Carolyn Porco
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. ~ Mary Kay Blakely
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Mary Kay Blakely
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. ~ Frank B. Kellogg
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Frank B. Kellogg
No man shall be blamed in the maintenance of his own religion. ~ Thomas More
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Thomas More
Cicero had lived through terrible times and his fundamental aim was to make sure that they never returned. He stood for the rule of law and the maintenance of a constitution in which all social groups could play a part, but where the Senate took the lead according to ancestral tradition. ~ Anthony Everitt
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Anthony Everitt
Saw about a dozen and a half bikers pull into a gas station. After watching them stop at the pumps, start up their bikes and ride to the front of the convenience store, stop, then fire up their bikes again and take off, I've come to conclusion that the most time consuming activity bikers engage in is finding neutral. ~ Foster Kinn
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Foster Kinn
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. ~ Cameron Sinclair
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Cameron Sinclair
I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore. ~ Esther Perel
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Esther Perel
SHAME-BASED FAMILY RULES Each family system has several categories of rules. There are rules about celebrating and socializing, rules about touching and sexuality, rules about sickness and proper health care, rules about vacations and vocations, rules about household maintenance and the spending of money. Perhaps the most important rules are about feelings, interpersonal communication and parenting. Toxic shame is consciously transferred by means of shaming rules. In shame-based families, the rules consciously shame all the members. Generally, however, the children receive the major brunt of the shame. Power is a cover-up for shame. Power is frequently hierarchical. ~ John Bradshaw
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by John Bradshaw
Lily knew what he meant. She loved places that people had forgotten, like the old gas station rotting on the edge of the forest in Pelt, all gray wood and brown metal. She liked to walk there sometimes and imagine that during tempests the king of the forest, dry leaves swirling around his motorcycle, would skid to a halt and demand unleaded gas from shadowy attendants while a mossy-faced knight sat in his sidecar. ~ M T Anderson
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by M T Anderson
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium. ~ Mary Blakely
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Mary Blakely
Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it. ~ Evel Knievel
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Evel Knievel
They talked about the incubators for a while, which he told her that he'd built himself. Then he showed her an ancient motorcycle with a few shiny new parts, and explained shyly that it was a Harley Super Glide, and he was restoring it. He'd brought her up to the loft, where there was a breathtaking view of the ranch spread and the horse fields. Then they sat in the gorgeous horse-drawn carriage that Mr. Thatcher always brought to town events and talked about school, life on the ranch, everything and anything. ~ Morgan Blaze
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Morgan Blaze
Wind blowing through hair is stimulating, however can term fatal to remove the head to remove the head forever. If you ride a motorcycle without helmet. ~ Ansh - The Mystic Rider
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Ansh - The Mystic Rider
I knew I was high maintenance and he was obviously going to be the same ~ Sylvia Day
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Sylvia Day
I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do. ~ Kelley Armstrong
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Kelley Armstrong
The best bike is the one you're on,
The best road is the one you're traveling,
The best destination is wherever you're headed,
The best time to get there is whenever you arrive. ~ Foster Kinn
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Foster Kinn
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ~ Robert Frost
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Robert Frost
When you love someone it feels like their blood runs through your veins, their breath fills your lungs, their heart makes yours beat, and without them everything stops."
"Fuck. That sounds tragic."
Tell me about it. "It is." I bend to kiss him again, this time on the forehead. "But it's worth it. ~ D.R. Graham
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by D.R. Graham
I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't. ~ Hugh Laurie
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Hugh Laurie
Cole,do you feel anything for me?" I don't know what made me ask this, except that Jack had asked him the night of the Tunnels.It obviously surprised him.
He backed up. "What?"
I inched forward,not quite sure I was going with this. "Do you feel ... something for me?"
He was quiet,still as a statue, so I moved even closer.
"Don't,Nik." His gaze dropped to the ground.
"If you feel anything, please leave me alone.I don't know why I survived.I don't have your answer. Shadowing me will get you nothing."
Then he did something unexpected. He backed down, and as he turned around to his motorcycle,he shook his head and mumbled, "What have you done to me?"
"I don't know," I said. "But you have ninety-nine years to figure it out."
He kicked it on and revved the engine, and at the sound,he found his cocky smirk again. "That's a long time, Nik. Jack is gone,and I'm here.Let's see who gives up first. ~ Brodi Ashton
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Brodi Ashton
As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into meaninglessness. And there is work that is restorative, convivial, dignified and dignifying, and pleasing. Good work is not just the maintenance of connections - as one is now said to work "for a living" or "to support a family" - but the enactment of connections. It is living, and a way of living; it is not support for a family in the sense of an exterior brace or prop, but is one of the forms and acts of love. (pg. 133, The Body and the Earth) ~ Wendell Berry
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Wendell Berry
Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken. ~ J.D. Robb
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by J.D. Robb
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture ~ Mark Steyn
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Mark Steyn
...unfair as it may be, nothing guarantees health to the old. Bodies wear out...despite the most careful maintenance. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ~ Maurice Strong
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Maurice Strong
The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance. ~ Claude Mandil
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Claude Mandil
As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard. ~ Wanda Sykes
Motorcycle Maintenance quotes by Wanda Sykes
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