"The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance……" — Robert Grudin
"The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves."
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35 Quotes by Robert Grudin
Robert Grudin has 35 quotes on this site.
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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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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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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 Discoverers Quotes
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable,…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem…
— Charles Darwin
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that…
— Heinrich Hertz
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We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
— Glenn Murcutt
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than…
— Albert Einstein
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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place…
— Albert Einstein
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The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping…
— Rick Strassman
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America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians…
— Bill Nye
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any,…
— John Charles Polanyi
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