Cerchi di capire dove stai andando e dove sei, e ti sembra che la tua vita non abbia senso. Ma quando dài uno sguardo indietro si delineano delle costanti, e se ti proietti in avanti partendo da quell...
But in the secondary America we’ve been through, of back roads, and Chinaman’s ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumbleb...
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we’re paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make i...
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.
After a while he says, Do you believe in ghosts? No, I say. Why not? Because they are un-sci-en-ti-fic. The way I say this makes John smile. They contain no matter, I continue, and have no energy and...
A very strong case can be made for the statement that science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the res...
1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the expe...
Самая большая двойственность, между ним и мной, так и осталась нераскрытой. Раздвоение личности.Кто же это сделал? Не я же. И никак нельзя исправить этого…Я всё думаю, насколько же глубоко дно у океан...
To keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he’s likely to discover that he...
The stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.
Stylized cars and stylized outboard motors and stylized typewriters and stylized clothes. Stylized refrigerators filled with stylized food in stylized kitchens in stylized houses. Plastic stylized toy...
Preintellectual awareness. The subliminal self, Poincaré said, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness.
Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong.
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.
It, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn int...
Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode.
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.