"Fast drivers can see no further than slow……" — Robert Grudin
"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 great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns."
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Robert Grudin
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35 Quotes by Robert Grudin
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold.…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats,…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds.…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations,…
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More Afoot Quotes
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
— Horace Kephart
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great…
— Helen Keller
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new…
— Frantz Fanon
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of…
— D. C. Fontana
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
— Unknown Author
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
— Dallas Willard
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage…
— Johannes Itten
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