“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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American writer and philosopher 1928–2017Related quotes

In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews

“You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been.”
Connections (1979), 9 - Countdown

As quoted in Pretty as a Picture : The Art of David Lynch (1997)

“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
Source: Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel TV Tie-in Edition

"Me (reprise)" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Me (reprise)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyN2Q_j1po (song on YouTube)