To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.
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 ask… - Robert Grudin
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 ask…
- Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. - Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
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 … - Robert Grudin
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 …
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. - Robert Grudin
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible … - Robert Grudin
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible …
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. - Robert Grudin
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. - Robert Grudin
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play,… - Robert Grudin
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play,…
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. - Robert Grudin
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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