Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. | |
― Thomas Jefferson | |
[A rocking horse provides a lot of activity and can be a lot of fun, but riding it never gets you anywhere different from where you were when you first got in the saddle. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Be Interesting |
Wonder What Is Wrong With Me | |
2020 | To Our #IdiotInChief: Wear A Mask! |
2019 | Silent Purpose |
2018 | Just Bake The Cake, Man |
2017 | Visible Proof |
2016 | Poor Enough Means |
2015 | Still Standing |
Follow Your Heart | |
2014 | Just Reminded |
2013 | A Fine Balance |
2012 | One Measure |
2011 | Seeking The Common Ground |
In Brightest Day… | |
Posts Tagged ‘Time’
But Don’t Be A Rocking Horse
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Complaining, Doing, Idleness, Philosophy, Quotes, Rocking Horses, Thomas Jefferson, Time on June 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Small Moments, Lived Well
Posted in Guitar, Music, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Guitar, https://www.classicalguitarshed.com/, Long-term Progress, Music, Other Blogs, Personal Challenge, Philosophy, Practice, Quotes, Time on December 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
When we see someone online play a piece note-perfect, we are seeing the fruit of more time than we would ever suspect. | |
Professional players have often spent hundreds of practice hours on a 3-minute piece of music. And even more time working on basic skills and abilities. | |
When we see and hear them, it appears simple. It looks easy. So we again assume incorrectly. We chalk it up to talent or luck. | |
But the reality is that high-level playing is possible for anyone (physical limitations aside). It’s all matter of minutes and hours. | |
Luckily, time will pass whether we practice or not. In three years, we will either have three more years of practice behind us, or we won’t. | |
We don’t need more time in the day. There’s no race or competition. No one cares how well we play. Guitar is a personal challenge and pursuit. Others may support and encourage, but they don’t care whether we practice each day or not. | |
The trick to putting in more time on something is to enjoy the practice. And this is born of creating small, achievable challenges, and meeting them. Over and over. We find something slightly difficult then we work on it. | |
We get feelings of satisfaction from winning the challenge. And our skills expand bit by bit, day after day. | |
We can (and should) still care about short-term results. We need the motivation that comes from success. | |
But we can also keep the long-term in mind. We can accept that pieces may take months or years to play well. Our speed and agility may take months and years to improve to where we want them. | |
Like life itself, our music is made of small moments, lived well. And the more we focus on process and quality, the smoother and more quickly we enjoy the fruits. | |
From a website I follow: https://www.classicalguitarshed.com/ | |
The specific post / page is: https://www.classicalguitarshed.com/tq-raymond-joseph-teller-magic-time/ | |
[Please visit the original site if you have a few moments… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Two Happy |
Every Time I Look Around | |
Boxing (Day: 3) – Double-End Target Setup | |
2019 | Stand Up, Hook Up, Shuffle To The Door… |
2018 | Ridiculous Idea |
2017 | Waddle On! |
A Severe Challenge — When The President Is A Liar | |
2016 | The Best Of Circumstances |
2015 | Reverberating Silence |
2014 | Wrong Again? |
2013 | Improper Faith |
2012 | One More Rung |
2011 | Sunday Morning Earlies (Hugging trees and smiling…) |
Hurry | |
Updates On Life | |
2010 | It’s Gettin’ Deep In Here |
And Ever
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Emily Dickinson, Forever, Now, Philosophy, Quotes, Time on December 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Forever is composed of nows. | |
— Emily Dickinson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Why I Used To Jog At Dawn |
Seeing You In His Arms | |
2019 | The Most Pressing Task |
Don’t Mess With The Lady | |
2018 | Seek A Clear View |
2017 | Living With Myself |
2016 | Still Looking In Mirrors? |
2015 | Fear No Evil |
2014 | And Nothing Can Be As Tragic As… |
2013 | Your Tax Dollars At Work |
2012 | Historically Unacceptable |
2011 | Niners Are NFC West Division Champions!! |
The Essence Of Leadership | |
An Afternoon Nap
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Afternoon Naps, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Dinner, Philosophy, Pleasure, Quotes, Time on July 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. | |
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Magical Voices In My Head |
I Still Need Educating | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
No Plan And Less Sand
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Greatness, Leonard Bernstein, Philosophy, Planning, Quotes, Time on March 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. | |
— Leonard Bernstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Why #45 Is In The Dark |
180 Day Health / Weight Update (Mar 2020) | |
2019 | Tonight I Am All Blacks |
In All Its Messy Complexity | |
2018 | Danger = Opportunity |
2017 | True And Great |
Sand At The Beach | |
2016 | There Is A Difference Between Dangerous And Frightening |
2015 | Always A Goal |
2014 | Standing Strong |
2013 | Shaken And Stirred |
The Bird With The Broken Wing | |
2012 | Friends In High Places |
2011 | Objective Independence |
I’m Retired, I Always Have Time For It!
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Humor, Philosophy, Procrastination, Quotes, Relaxing, Sydney J. Harris, Time on February 19, 2021| 2 Comments »
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. | |
— Sydney J. Harris | |
[I didn’t finish yesterday. I’ll try again today… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Decide, Support, Vote |
2019 | Aware Some |
2018 | Know Any Christians? |
2017 | The Only Thing I Can Give… |
2016 | Wiser But Less Cocksure |
2015 | Not Today |
Wicked | |
2014 | …Am Too |
2013 | Credible? |
2012 | Both |
2011 | Risking Hidden Linkage |
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 »
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 |
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 | |