Robert Grudin Quotes

• True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

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  Love, Teacher, Learning

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

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  Mystery, Entrances, Great Experiences

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

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  Attitude, Lying, Struggle

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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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. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

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  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mimamos el presente como a un niño mimado, obedeciendo sus exigencias superficiales pero ignorando sus necesidades reales.

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  Time, Children, Real

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Planning, Flaws, Made

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Life, Communication, Expression

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

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  Attitude, Inspirational Birthday, May

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

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  Time, Future, Waiting

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would be primal danger and stress.

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  Dream, Stress, Past

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• Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

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  Love, Wise, Creativity

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• 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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  Future, People, Vision

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 of our impoverishment in time.

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  Time, Details, Gauges

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Time, Space, Shapes

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

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  Goal, Peers

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• 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 walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

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  Time, Art, Students

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Faith, Time, Memories

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 as a dress on a hook.

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  Time, Truth, Dresses

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

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  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Generosity, Giving, Purpose

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La mente que puede olvidar total e insensatamente su trabajo y sus obligaciones suele ser también la mente que, en el momento oportuno, puede prestarles la máxima atención.

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  Giving, Mind, Attention

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

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  Regret, Anxiety, Cheerful

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

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  Love, Teaching, Fundamentals

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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

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  Work, Rewards, Bread

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

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  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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