Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. — Robert Grudin Attitude Copy Share Image
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Bread Copy Share Image
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. — Robert Grudin Education Copy Share Image
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. — Robert Grudin Education Copy Share Image
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin Awareness Copy Share Image
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Beauty Copy Share Image
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin Entrances Copy Share Image
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin Beauty 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,… — Robert Grudin Able Copy Share Image
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new… — Robert Grudin Assumption 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… — Robert Grudin Comfort Copy Share Image
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie… — Robert Grudin Answers 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… — Robert Grudin Freedom Copy Share Image
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. — Robert Grudin Anticipation 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,… — Robert Grudin Day to day Copy Share Image
Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths… — Robert Grudin Achievement Copy Share Image
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static… — Robert Grudin Action Copy Share Image
“Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that… — Robert Grudin Book Copy Share Image
“On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of… — Robert Grudin Desire Copy Share Image
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,… — Robert Grudin Achieve Copy Share Image
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity,… — Robert Grudin Atoms Copy Share Image
You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen… — Robert Grudin Chores Copy Share Image
“We wonder at good things, are appalled by evil. What's wondering got in common with being appalled? That strange combination, that surprise… — Robert Grudin Good thing 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
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look… — Robert Grudin Age Copy Share Image
“...temporal experience is neither completely recurrent (in which case it would be wholly knowable) nor completely variable (in which case it would… — Robert Grudin First time Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Chess Copy Share Image
“Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally… — Robert Grudin Determinism Copy Share Image
“We are not great connoisseurs of the two twilights. We miss the dawning, exclusably enough, by sleeping through it, and are as… — Robert Grudin Darkness 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… — Robert Grudin Action Copy Share Image
The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves. — Robert Grudin Goal Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin Inspirational Copy Share Image
The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place. — Robert Grudin First place Copy Share Image
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. — Robert Grudin Flaws 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 Challenges Copy Share Image
In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event… — Robert Grudin Events 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
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 are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect… — Robert Grudin Answers Copy Share Image
