Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

When we do something good, people immediately follow it.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

Smiles are everywhere, and smiles can spread. You can smile to someone, and they'll smile to another person, and it goes on and on and on.

For me, doing good work is important.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

Our sole mission on this show is to make people think, make people feel, and make people happy as much as we can.

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

What you think and do affects all other people.

All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

I think we underestimate the importance of kindness sometimes. We understand the power of just a little tiny bit of kindness. It could be the catalyst for something so important. Sometimes just a tiny little gesture or an acknowledgment can make all the difference in turning somebody's life around. I think it has a trickle down effect, when you pass on what you receive without even knowing it. We also underestimate our own power to make a difference with the decisions that we make, every day.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. That would be the revelation of love. If you have a question of whether this is love, think about the effect.

If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.