Robert Grudin Quotes

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• The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
• Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with…
• The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.
• True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make…
• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space.…
• That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we…
• Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
• At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon,…
• Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
• We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our…
• 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 the…
• The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
• Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.
• We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our…
• Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
• The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.
• True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.
• What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully…
• Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion,…
• The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated…

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