"The future is like the daytime moon, a……" — Robert Grudin
"The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel."
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35 Quotes by Robert Grudin
Robert Grudin has 35 quotes on this site.
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
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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 Almost Invisible Quotes
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult…
— Unknown Author
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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a…
— Isaac Babel
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape…
— Bruce Friedrich
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the…
— Emily Post
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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental…
— Hermann Weyl
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It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last…
— Gustave Meyrink
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it…
— Alex Kingston
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold…
— Agnes Denes
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
— Robert Morgan
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