Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only… — 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 Copy Share Image
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the… — Robert Grudin 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 fit, agree,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin 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 than closed… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
