Anticipation Quote by Robert Grudin

“The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.”

Robert Grudin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Anticipation Companion Cycles Daytime Elegant Faith Faithful Invisible Memories Moon Seasons Time Timeliness Timing

More by Robert Grudin

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…

Robert Grudin

Image

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too…

Robert Grudin

Image

“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the…

Robert Grudin

Image

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,…

Robert Grudin

Image

“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.”

Robert Grudin

Image

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

Robert Grudin

Image

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and…

Robert Grudin

Image

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

Robert Grudin

Image

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Robert Grudin

Image

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

Robert Grudin

Image

Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed…

Robert Grudin

Image

The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a…

Robert Grudin

Image

Explore all 50 Robert Grudin quotes

More Anticipation quotes

There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,…

Marco Mendoza

Image

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Miranda Lambert

Image

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Lou Boudreau

Image

Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with…

Gary Chapman

Image

“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Image

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

Karl Popper

Image

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only…

Zelig Pliskin

Image

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the…

Friedrich Nietzsche