With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is. With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Potential Is A Heavy Burden |
2014 | Fear Not, Weep Not |
2013 | Half Way There |
2012 | Sacrificed Any Lately? |
2011 | The Value Of One’s Character |
2010 | Intervals |
On Being Human | |
Non-predictive Emergence | |
Events | |
Bodily Functions | |
Standing Thoughts | |
Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed | |
Archive for June, 2016
A Trumpet Solo
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, My Journal, On Fame, On Public Perception, Quotes on June 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Maybe Someday
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Being Cultured, Peter Lawrence, Quotes on June 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A cultured person is one who can entertain himself, entertain others, and entertain ideas. | |
— Peter Lawrence | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | How’s The Cow? |
2014 | Mind Made Up |
2013 | On Purpose |
2012 | The Dream |
2011 | What Could Be More Comfortable? |
Chains Of Habit
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Habits, Quotes, Samuel Johnson on June 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The chains of habit are too weak too be felt until they are too strong to be broken. | |
— Samuel Johnson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | That You Shall Remain |
Did You See That? | |
2014 | True, Vibrant And Open |
2013 | Remembering, Yet Again |
2012 | Something Of Value |
2011 | Sleep All Day |
More Lives
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, Reading, tagged My Journal, On Reading, Quotes, S. I. Hayakawa on June 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read… It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. | |
— S. I. Hayakawa | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Go Shopping More |
2014 | Say What? |
2013 | Accepting Beauty |
2012 | Transitional Choice To Ride The Wave |
2011 | Freedom Isn’t Always Perfect |
Just That Simple | |
Mostly Just Masticating
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, Reading, tagged Edmund Burke, My Journal, On Reading, On Reflection, Quotes on June 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. | |
— Edmund Burke | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Don’t Mess With Mosa |
How Long Is This Run? | |
2014 | The Importance Of Being Forgetful |
2013 | Anyway |
2012 | Habit Forming |
2011 | And In The Other Hand(ful) |
In Love With Words | |
Boundless Naïveté | |
Who Did You Say Signed Off On This Treason, Pat? | |
Hard Learners
Posted in History, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Aldous Huxley, On History, On Learning, Quotes on June 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. | |
— Aldous Huxley | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Goals |
2014 | Switch To Dogs… |
2013 | Times Change |
2012 | Ashes Not Dust |
2011 | A Handful From Saudi |
None Of This Happened | |
Take Responsibility | |
As Close As They Can Get
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Isaac Asimov, Knowledge, Quotes, Science on June 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it. | |
— Isaac Asimov | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | And So I Blog |
2014 | Take Flight |
2013 | Contributing Joy |
2012 | More Than A Race |
2011 | Institutionalized Leadership |
Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Edward P. Morgan, My Journal, Quotes, Reading on June 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face… It is one of the havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. | |
— Edward P. Morgan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Bound Up |
2014 | Economic Engines |
2013 | Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading? |
Absent Friends | |
Where I Stand | |
2012 | Hangin’ With His P’s |
Help Save | |
2011 | Six Facets Of Good Leadership |
Kept
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, Reading, tagged Joseph Joubert, My Journal, On New Books, On Old Books, On Reading, Quotes on June 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. | |
— Joseph Joubert | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Envy * 2 |
2014 | Destiny For The Talented |
2013 | I Do Not Fear It |
2012 | Until Found |
2011 | Reducing Goods To Data |
The Fog Of Civilization Building | |
Cast Out
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Inherit The Wind, King James Bible, On Being Foolish, On Wisdom, Philosophy, Proverbs 11:29, Quotes on June 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; | |
and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. | |
— Proverbs: 11:29 | |
King James Bible | |
[If our house (civilization) is built on technology and science and we seek to enforce faith and religion on any or all, we shall inherit the wind. Similarly, if we base our house (morality) on technology and science and seek to strip faith and religion from any or all, we will eventually come to view others in a cost / benefits analysis and we too shall inherit the wind. There is a middle ground. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Small Pieces |
Happy Father’s Day! | |
2014 | Uncertain Work |
2013 | Unpatriotic And Servile |
2012 | What Price Freedom? |
2011 | Particular Importance |
Three From Bette… | |
Poor Enough Means
Posted in Quotes, tagged Henry Drummond, Inherit The Wind, Jerome Lawrence, On Cursing, On Language, Quotes, Robert E. Lee on June 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry if I offend you. But I don’t swear just for the hell of it. You see, I figure language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we’ve got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands. | |
— Henry Drummond (the character) | |
Written by: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | |
From their play / book: “Inherit The Wind“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Still Standing |
Follow Your Heart | |
2014 | Just Reminded |
2013 | A Fine Balance |
2012 | One Measure |
2011 | Seeking The Common Ground |
In Brightest Day… | |
Just Asking…
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reading on June 19, 2016| 1 Comment »
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. | |
–– Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Two Thoughts On Thinking |
2014 | From The Top, Please… |
2013 | You Are The Stars |
2012 | Just One?? |
2011 | Anything But |
Returning To The Same Box
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged http://onethousandsingledays.wordpress.com/, On Chess, On Life, On The Lessons Of Life, One Thousand Single Days, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes on June 18, 2016| 1 Comment »
Both my sons enjoy playing chess. Largely self taught, my young Rooks will challenge one another with the tool disguised as a game that has been used for generations to teach the strategies of war, the art of psychology and philosophy, the value of patience, forethought, mindfulness and principals that are true of life as much as they are true in Chess such as the fact it is just as important to win with grace as it is to lose with dignity, that strategy without patience is caustic, that we must remain flexible and that at the end of the day, the pawn and the king both return to the same box… | |
Found at one of the blogs I follow: One Thousand Single Days | |
Specific post: http://onethousandsingledays.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/the-lesson/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | The Hunter’s Music |
2014 | Dedication |
2013 | Unhappy Alternatives |
2012 | Implications |
2011 | Never Let Us Down |
Definitely Not Bell Shaped
Posted in Quotes, tagged Adrienne LaFrance, Andrew Russell, http://www.routefifty.com/, On Technology, On The Future, Quotes, Stevens Institute of Technology, Technology the Faux Equalizer, The Atlantic, William Gibson on June 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Andrew Russell, a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. “Every jump in technology draws attention and capital away from existing technologies used by the 99 percent, which therefore undermines equality, and reduces the ability for people to get onto the ‘playing field’ in the first place.” | |
Russell also reminded me of the famous William Gibson quote, “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” | |
“I have never been able to understand why anyone would assume that the future would be evenly distributed,” Russell said. “To put this in a different way: I have never been able to find any evidence from human history to suggest that the future will be evenly distributed.” | |
— Adrienne LaFrance | |
From his article: “Technology, the Faux Equalizer“ | |
Appearing in: The Atlantic | |
31 March 2016 | |
Found at one of the news sites I follow: http://www.routefifty.com/ | |
The specific link is: http://www.routefifty.com/2016/03/silicon-valley-inequality-digital-divide/127147/?oref=govexec_today_nl | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Dreadful Pity |
2014 | Worse Than Useless |
2013 | Personal Prisons |
2012 | So, Not Yet Then |
2011 | Real Love |
Oh, So Lacking
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Frederick S. Perls, Friedrich S. Perls, Fritz S. Perls, My Journal, On Maturity, On Responsibility, Quotes on June 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Responsibility is the ability to respond and be fully responsible for oneself and for nobody else. This is, I believe, the most basic characteristic of the mature person. | |
— Friedrich (Fritz / Frederick) S. Perls | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | e pluribus unum |
2014 | Nothing So Far Removed |
2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |