"The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself."

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Robert M. Pirsig

#Climbing Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Summit Quotes

“By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.”
“People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.”
“To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away.”
“The right man can make a good job out of any job.”
“Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.”
“If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.”
“It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.”
“I guess economists, itâ€™s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,”

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