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Robert Grudin
"The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs."
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Source : Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields
Robert Grudin
#Love Quotes
#Teaching Quotes
#Fundamentals Quotes
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“I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.”
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“I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.”
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“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.”
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“If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.”
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“I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.”
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“You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.”
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“Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.”
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“Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.”
