We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;… — Robert Grudin Balloons Copy Share Image
The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas… — Robert Grudin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather… — Robert Grudin Anxiety Copy Share Image
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in… — Robert Grudin Ability Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly… — Robert Grudin Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Ability Copy Share Image
