Robert Grudin Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

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

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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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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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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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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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Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

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The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

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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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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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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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Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

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