“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“...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
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
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
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
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. — Robert Grudin Education Copy Share Image
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin Entrances 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
“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
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
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. — Robert Grudin Flaws 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. — Robert Grudin Impart 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
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
Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.… — Robert Grudin Clarity Copy Share Image
