Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Be quick without hurrying.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

If you run about trying to make people like you all the time you'd never get anything done.

Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.