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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Dec - 19
Jan - 21
Feb - 8
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On exercising and music
10 Feb2009
Back in November I posted my yearly Thanksgiving challenge. Last year my challenge was going great until February, when I developed severe metatarsal pain. My internist and I made a presumptive diagnosis of stress fracture – never obtained an Xray and treated conservatively. Since a big part of my exercise program includes striding machines (elliptical and arc trainer), I had to place myself on the injured reserve list. Fortunately, stress fractures (or maybe just a bone bruise) heal, and this past November I felt great.
I am pleased to report that my resolution is going strong. I am well into my 4th month of highly committed exercise, and have once again added strength training (that was my January resolution.)
Many readers will remember that I use music to drive my workouts harder – especially the elliptical machine. I have a few new songs to add to my previous lists. I have bolded my current favorites
I Can’t Quit Her 3:55 Al Kooper & Child Is Father To The Man
Pictures in an Exhibition 3:49 Death Cab for Cutie
My Way 4:26 Los Lonely Boys 97
When In Rome 4:16 Nickel Creek 90
Tropicalia 3:21 Beck
Bandages & Scars 3:23 Son Volt
Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown 3:38 Neil Young
When a Kid Goes Bad 4:57 Petty, Tom And The Heartbreakers
English Trees 3:41 Crowded House
Clean up Woman 2:56 Al Kooper
Please Don’t Stop 4:02 Richard Bona
Sea Legs 5:23 The Shins
Life Is a Carnival 3:58 The Band
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 4:21 The Police
My Culture 5:39 One Giant Leap 90
Sit & Listen to the Rain 4:05 Whiskeytown
More Than It Would Seem 5:19 The Gabe Dixon Band
I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You) 4:52 John Mayer
You Never Know Till You Get There 4:04 Al Kooper
I used a new program Tangerine! to find music having the desired BPM. This program works with you iTunes music library. It requires a Mac with the most recent operating system. Just another advantage of moving to the Mac world.
I hope your exercise story is as positive as mine. As a physician I recommend a healthy lifestyle to patients. I therefore am a hypocrit if I do not work to engage in exercise myself. I also really feel much better than I did on November 1.
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4 Responses to On exercising and music
TBTAM
February 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the tip about Tangerine – just what I’ve been looking for.
Some of the songs from the musical Rent are my favorites to work out to -
La vie boheme
I’ll cover you
Out tonight
I also like the Dixie Chicks, but I guess that’s a girl thing.
And of course there’s Springsteen’s Born to Run album.
See you at the gym!
JunkMD
February 10th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the recommendations. I started in August and am proud to be down 55 pounds myself!
Bruce Small
February 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
We watch old NCIS shows while exercising, or The Amazing Race if it is on. Great way to watch TV for an hour without guilt, and it makes the hour pass quickly. The treadmill, recumbent bike, and elliptical all face the big TV, by design.
GingerB
February 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I like to watch NCIS on the treadmill too!
So what was your cross-training plan?
One important thing to lifetime fitness is a Plan B for injuries.
Did you bike instead, or swim? Perhaps you ramped up your weight training routine?
Once you’ve managed to work working out into your schedule you shouldn’t ever let that time go, even if you’re injured.