“Free 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.” ThinkingMenLifeActionPastSpacePerfectFutureMen And WomenStressDimensionsCracksImperfectFrameworkNot PerfectStaticFree ManPast PresentPast Present And Future Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“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. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.” IfsThinkingWayYearsHumansLooksLongTwoIdeasEnoughBodyAgeNumbersOur LivesCommunicationBabyTenEternityFunctionHuman LifeRevolutionaryInsultEach DayCosmosTwo YearsConceptionSecondsMinorsSeventiesHuman BodyRevolutionary IdeasSudden Death Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“What 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.” ThinkingLoveMindDoneFeelingsJobsImaginationPleasureConsciousnessBreakPracticePossibilityTheoryResourcesAnd LoveWorkersCommitBarriersAestheticBreaking DownTheory And Practice Author:Robert Grudin
“We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.” ThinkingMindWholeRealityAbleFreedomAbilityLibertyCreativityCreativeAlternativesExceedCreative Mind Book:The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
