"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Failure Quotes #Self Quotes #Effort Quotes

“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.”
“I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.”
“Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.”
“Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.”

Source : "Beyond the Planet Earth". Book by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1920.
“I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”
“There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.”
“The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.”
“My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't like extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.”

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