What I am is a heretic who’s recanted, and thereby in everyone’s eyes saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
Waiting. For that missing seed crystal of thought that would suddenly solidify everything.
This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that’s what it is. Blind
They contain no matter, I continue, and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people’s minds.
These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you’re bound to be very discouraged very soon if you’ve derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.
There’s kind of a glaring inconsistency here, that’s almost too obvious to dwell on. If they can’t stand physical discomfort and they can’t stand technology, they’ve got a little compromising to do. T...
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown kno...
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.
One student laid it wide open when she said with complete candor, Of course you can’t eliminate the degree and grading system. After all, that’s what we’re here for. She spoke the complete truth. The...
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.
Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not...
In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, Thou art that, which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive ar...
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical disco...
He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person.
Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing’s quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you’ll never regret
He discovered that the science he’d once thought of as the whole world of knowledge is only a branch of philosophy, which is far broader and far more general. The questions he had asked about infinite...
Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven’t got it there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there’s abs...