Favorite Quotes
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ====
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The Thanksgiving resolution – year 3
28 Nov2008
For the 3rd year I challenge you, the readers, to have a healthy month, starting with today, and finishing Jan 1. Jan. 1 is too late for a resolution. Do it today.
This year, I actually started on November 1 – and have worked out 5-6 days each week this month. I worked out hard on the elliptical machine prior to Thanksgiving dinner yesterday – minimizing the damage I hope.
Most current playlist for the elliptical machine:
The Thief & the Heartbreaker 4:39 Alberta Cross
Stitched Up (Featuring John Mayer) 5:26 Herbie Hancock & John Mayer
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 4:21 Police
Pictures in an Exhibition 3:49 Death Cab for Cutie
Halfway Home 5:32 TV On The Radio
Young Americans 3:17 David Bowie
Runaround Sue 2:52 Dion
Runnin’ Down a Dream 4:23 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Jigsaw Falling Into Place 4:09 Radiohead
Someday Baby 4:56 Bob Dylan Modern Times
Long Division 3:50 Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
As I have written before, this is the best time of the year for this resolution. You can swim against the tide and prevent the traditional December weight gain. The gym is not very crowded, because everyone else waits for Jan 1.
Good luck to all.
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- Thanksgiving resolution – year 4
- On exercising and music
- Expresso fitness – my exercise obsession
- Can you lose weight through exercise?
- The Thanksgiving Exercise resolution challenge
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4 Responses to The Thanksgiving resolution – year 3
beth bradford
November 30th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Your list kept some holdovers from August. I have the Alberta Cross on my workout IPOD. Try Madame Joy from Van Morrison or Acadian Driftwood (a Band song but Richard Shindell’s version is great for warming up or cooling down).
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