"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."

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Source : "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

Robert M. Pirsig

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“When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.”
“Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.”
“I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.”
“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they donâ€™t deserve them, or that theyâ€™ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but werenâ€™t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”
“People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”
“The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.”
“There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.”

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