I think of Montaigne when I read it. For Robert Grudin, living is an art, and cultivating a creative partnership with time is one of the keys to mastering it. Grudin offers practical advice and mental exercises designed to help the reader use time more effectively, but this is no ordinary self-help book. It is instead a kind of wisdom literature, a guide to life, a feast for the mind and for the spirit. Long unbroken periods contain more usable time than do short periods totaling the same length.
Perspective operates in time as well as space.
Making the present time slow its pace by thinking of the present, not as a moving point or as a thin film through which one faces a parade of concerns, but rather as a kind of chamber, a voluminous dimension in which thoughts and actions and affections can devlop undisturbed. Seek the larger projects, the designs which extend our care and effort through weeks and months. Grip time as though with two hands. We possess a number of psychological clocks. One sort of time may pass quickly for me which another passes quite slowly.