37 Quotes by Robert Grudin

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

The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

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

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.

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.

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

We wonder at good things, are appalled by evil. What’s wondering got in common with being appalled? That strange combination, that surprise duet of disbelief and acknowledgement. You can’t believe that any human being would open up with an assault gun in a trolley, but look over there – right there! – there’s somebody doing it.

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.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.