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 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 …
- 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 … - 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 …
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. - Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. - Robert Grudin
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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,…
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.
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.
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.
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… - Robert Grudin
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…
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