All Robert Grudin Quotes
- The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. Almost Invisible
- 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… Afoot
- 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. Able
- 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… Absorb
- 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.… Across
- 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… Beyond
- Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. Attitude
- 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,… Balloon
- Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. Carefully
- 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… Agonize
- 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… Age
- The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves. Discoverers
- Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character. Achievement
- 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… Answer
- Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. Beauty
- The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. Fundamental
- True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. Awaken
- 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… Aesthetic
- 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,… Atom
- 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… Acheivements
- Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless… Consult
- We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. Child
- The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge… Day
- Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. Full
- Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must… Approach