Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Bread 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
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Beauty 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
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
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin Beauty 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Agree 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 Careful 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
“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten… — Robert Grudin Revealing Things 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
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
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
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
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. — Robert Grudin Attitude 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
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. — Robert Grudin Education 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
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
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin Entrances Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Approach Copy Share Image
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as… — Robert Grudin Dresses 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
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper… — Robert Grudin Attention Copy Share Image
Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate… — Robert Grudin Business 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
