Quotes by Robert Grudin

Robert Grudin

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

Entrances

Great Experiences

Mystery

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.

Blue

Fall

Pain

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

Character

Creativity

Freedom

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.

Moving

Powerful

Winning

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Creativity

Ideas

Rejection

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.

Home

Should Have

Two

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

Creativity

Love

Wise

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.

Future

People

Vision

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.

Future

Life

Stress

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

Creativity

Drama

Simple

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Anxiety

Art

Attention

Attitude

Baby

Beautiful

Beauty

Blue

Bread

Challenges

Change

Character

Cheerful

Children

Communication

Creativity

Details

Dinner

Drama

Drawing

Dream

Dresses

Entrances

Epic

Expression

Faith

Fall

Firsts

Flaws

Freedom

Fundamentals

Future

Gauges

Generosity

Giving

Goal

Great Experiences

Half

Home

Ideas

Imagination

Inspiration

Inspirational Birthday

Jobs

Learning

Life

Long

Love

Lying

Made

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Quotes by Robert Grudin

Robert Grudin

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

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.

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

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

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.

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

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.

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

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