If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with the success unexpected in common hours. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Curing With Salt |
2018 | A Politician With Skills |
And / Or A Genuine Smile | |
2017 | A Lone, Brave Voice… |
2016 | Job Security |
2015 | For I Have Always Lived Violently |
2014 | We Stand !! (I Stand With George) |
Additional Requirements | |
2013 | In The Present Day |
2012 | Feeling It |
2011 | Stretching Science |
Posts Tagged ‘Time’
Meet Unexpected Success
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Confidence, Dreams, Endeavors, Henry David Thoreau, Imagination, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Time on December 19, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A Weary Rehearsal?
Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged History, Philosophy, Quotes, The Lessons Of History, Time, Will and Ariel Durant on December 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Is it possible that, after all, “history has no sense,” that it teaches us nothing, and that the immense past was only the weary rehearsal of the mistakes that the future is destined to make on a larger stage and scale? | |
— Will and Ariel Durant | |
From their book: “The Lessons Of History“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | At Least Mostly On Purpose |
2018 | Only One You In All Time |
2017 | Have You Hugged A Tree Lately? |
2016 | Unconquerable Imagination |
2015 | Just Plain Wrong |
2014 | Finding Beliefs |
2013 | Pretty Confident |
2012 | Effective Ranges |
2011 | Three Wisdoms |
2010 | I’m Just Askin’… |
Space & Time | |
I Can’t Stay For Long
Posted in Health, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Eric Clapton, Included Video, Philosophy, Quotes, Tears In Heaven -- music video, Time, YouTube on December 8, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Tears In Heaven |
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Favorite Line(s): | |
Time can bring you down, | |
Time can bend your knees | |
Time can break your heart, | |
Have you begging please, | |
Begging please | |
Beyond the door, | |
There’s peace I’m sure | |
And I know there’ll be no more | |
Tears in heaven | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | A Surprisingly Good Way |
It’s Official X-mas (Tree) At Home | |
2018 | Weight / Health Update |
What’s Happening With You? | |
2017 | The Great Leveler |
Conservative Depressions | |
2016 | Election + 1 Month |
2015 | Dance And Sing |
2014 | A Measuring Stick For Progress |
2013 | Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit |
2012 | Have We Met? |
2011 | Efficiently Useless |
Books And Blogs
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Experience, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Socrates, Time, Writing on November 21, 2020| 2 Comments »
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | |
― Socrates | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
2018 | A Message To The White House Press Corps |
2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
Your Challenge
Posted in Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Challenge, Death, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Time on July 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | The Tragedies Are About To Get Worse |
2018 | Plunge |
Time To Meet God | |
2017 | Wealth Within |
2016 | Soaring |
2015 | Gone To The Library… |
2014 | Choose To Lead |
2013 | Not Sent Yet |
2012 | Wall-Crawler Reboot |
Learning To Count | |
On Worshiping God | |
2011 | Emancipated Differences |
2010 | A Little More Technology, Please… |
Better Sooner Than Later
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Kindness, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Time on June 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Possibilities And Challenges |
And Miles To Go Before She Sleeps | |
2018 | What I Tell You Three Times Is True |
2017 | And So On |
2016 | Kept |
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 | |
Chaos Is Not Really A New Remedy
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged #45 - The Loser, #IncompetentTrump, Francis Bacon, New Remedies, Politics, Quotes, Time on March 17, 2019| 1 Comment »
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. | |
— Francis Bacon | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | History Will Judge Harshly |
Father Time, Perhaps? | |
2017 | Odds Are |
2016 | Prayer, Too |
2015 | History, n. |
2014 | See It Sometime |
2013 | Precious Friend |
2012 | It Couldn’t Be Done |
Feeling Surrounded? | |
2011 | Surprise! |
Uncertain Times
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Time, Uncertainty, Warren Buffett on January 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Satisfied |
2017 | In The Mind |
2016 | Dreaming |
2015 | The Best Medicine Is Also Contagious |
2014 | Eyes Off |
2013 | The More Things Change… |
2012 | The Delicate Moment Of Giving |
2011 | Ready, Shoot, Aim!! |
Fill It Up
Posted in Poetry, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Anonymous, Attitude, Chinese Proverb, Joy, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Space, Time on January 7, 2019| 2 Comments »
Life itself can’t give you joy, | |
Unless you really will it. | |
Life just gives you time and space | |
It’s up to you to fill it. | |
— Chinese proverb (I’ve also seen it attributed as “Anonymous”) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Can We Talk About Me? |
2017 | About Change |
Gordian | |
2016 | Are Your Prayers Functioning? |
2015 | Expressing Love |
2014 | Cyclical Attitudes |
2013 | Footprints |
2012 | Broken Resolutions |
Bin It | |
And Some Never Do
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Growing Young, Pablo Picasso, Philosophy, Quotes, Time, Youth on December 16, 2018| 2 Comments »
It takes one a long time to grow young. | |
— Pablo Picasso | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | When We Know We Are Loved |
2016 | Good Acts |
2015 | Will You Be Leaving Soon? |
2014 | Just Long Enough |
2013 | R.I.P. – Tom Laughlin |
Seeking Success? | |
2012 | All Aboard |
2011 | Sail On, Sailor |
History Judges Incompetent Presidencies, Too
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IncompetentDonald, Mediocracy, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Time, Warren Buffett on July 20, 2018| 1 Comment »
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
[And some Administration’s are so bad / incompetent / corrupt, we don’t even have to wait for “history”. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Our Confident New President |
2016 | Ways |
2015 | Be Happy, Too |
2014 | At Least Smile |
2013 | Comfortably Bound |
2012 | Certainty |
Thinking About Fathers | |
2011 | And In Every Level Of Media |
Tic-Toc
Posted in Humor, Quotes, Writing, tagged Franklin Pierce Adams, Humor, Imagination, Procrastination, Quotes, Time, Writing on June 11, 2018| 1 Comment »
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. | |
— Franklin Pierce Adams | |
[Maybe procrastination has a little bit to do with it, too. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Explaining Working Class Support For Donald |
2016 | Not In My Experience |
2015 | Effort |
2014 | Honest Wants |
2013 | Faith, n. |
2012 | Surprise Me |
2011 | Confused With Truth |
Thinking Ahead
Posted in Investing, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Investing, Kuan Tzu, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Thinking Ahead, Time on May 5, 2018| Leave a Comment »
If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people. | |
— Kuan Tzu | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | I’d Like To Try |
2016 | Or Blog (And Bound) |
2015 | Welcome The Virtuous |
2014 | Closing The Gap? |
2013 | On Parenting |
2012 | What Knowledge Is |
2011 | The Indefinite Accumulation Of Property |
Just Two?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Injustice, Nicolas Chamfort, Philosophy, Quotes, Time on April 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. | |
— Nicolas Chamfort | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Living Without Love |
Good News! | |
2016 | At This Moment |
2015 | Still Dreaming |
2014 | Good Wins |
2013 | Before |
2012 | Look To This Day |
2011 | One View Of Man |