Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.
Robert GrudinWhat liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind.
Robert GrudinThe fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.
Robert GrudinFree 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.
Robert Grudin