Occupation: Writer Birth: March 11, 1938
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 ….
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner….
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to..
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….
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, peri….
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space..
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time..
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love..
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived ….
The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restat….
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in ment….
The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves..
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward..
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. Ea….
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel..
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity….
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 gr….
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, p….
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give..
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new id….