Action

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson

Meaning:
Think and analyze quickly and thoroughly, but don't act impulsively. Come up with a plan quickly, but take your time putting it into action.


“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
- Henri Bergson (French Philosopher, 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1859-1941)

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.”
- Henri Bergson


“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”


“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)


“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”  ~Goethe

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image”
-  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
- Plato

"A Prayer"

 by max Ehrmann

Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times. May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of a quiet river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years. Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift up my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars.  Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the  kindly light of hope. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

 Ehrmann graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle in 1894, after which he studied law and philosophy at Harvard University.

Ehrmann returned to Terre Haute to practice law, following which (early 1900's) he began writing, apparently obsessively. Max Ehrmann was known as the 'Poet Laureate' of Terre Haute.

Ehrmann wrote many poems, although none became well known until after his death. Aside from Desiderata his most famous poem is 'A Prayer', written in 1906.

YouTube - JAMMIN' THE BLUES (1944) !!!

YouTube - JAMMIN' THE BLUES (1944) !!!

y JUSTASITTINANDAROCK on May 11, 2009 

You can watch all my rare oldies soundies on :http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbG5rLm1zLzA3d2hI orhttp://www.myspace.com/swingcocktail 

Category:

Music

JAMMIN’ THE BLUES | 1944
“Jammin’ the Blues is a 1944 short film in which several prominent jazz musicians got together for a rare filmed jam session. It featured Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney. Barney Kessel is the only white performer in the film. He was seated in the shadows to shade his skin, and for closeups, his hands were stained with berry juice. The movie was directed by Gjon Mili. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award for this footage in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel. In 1995, Jammin’ the Blues was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’. ”

YouTube - Randy Newman - It's money that I love

YouTube - Randy Newman - It's money that I love: ""

My Trouble and Strife

Trouble and Strife is Cockney slang for Wife.

Trouble and strife for cockney rhyming slang

THE Cockney accent is dying out in parts of its spiritual home, according to research. A study of speech in the East End found that the accent of London’s working classes is being replaced with a new dialect.

A similar phenomenon is also taking place with other British accents, such as Scouse, English-language specialists told the BBC’s Voices project.

Sue Fox, a research fellow in sociolinguistic variation at Queen Mary College, University of London, said that a new mix of Cockney and Bangladeshi had developed. She studied youngsters in Tower Hamlets and said: “The majority of young people of school age are of Bangladeshi origin and this has had tremendous impact on dialect in the area. They are using a variety of English not traditionally associated with Cockney English. It ’s a variety that we might say is Bangladeshi-accented; and in turn what I’ve found is that some adolescents of white British origin are also using these features in their speech.”

The study discovered that young, white men have begun using words from their Bangladeshi friends such as “nang” for “good” and “skets” for slippers.

Dr Laura Wright, senior lecturer in English language at the University of Cambridge, said that the Cockney accent has shifted to towns around the capital.

She said: “East End communities were disrupted after the Second World War, and many inhabitants were transferred to the New Towns, such as Basildon and Harlow. When they resettled, they took their speech with them.”

Source:  August 22, 2005

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article557754.ece