Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Quotes

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, , originally ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I've said you can actually this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is to misunderstand the nature of art. They have patience, care and attentiveness t...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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 qu...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The orange turns to dull bronze light and continues to show what it has shown all day long, but now it seems to show it without enthusiasm. Across those dry hills, within those little houses in the distance are people who've been there all day long, ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces that can tear this whole mountain apart.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or a...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. A...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Dad?" "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. "What should I be when I grow up?" The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?" "If you take care of it." "What do you have to do?" "Lot's of things. You've been watching me." "Will you show me all of them?" "Sure." "Is it hard?" "Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having th...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now and I see ideas. He thinks I'm working on parts. I'm working on c...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values