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I've never forgotten a talk given by my old headmistress, where her theme was "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly". She was talking about having a go at painting, or singing, even if you were no good at it. It was a novel idea to me. Later, I asked her if I could give up 6th form Latin. "Why?" she asked. "Because I'm not very good at it." "That's not a good enough reason. People might say "Mary's not very good at Latin". Is that what worries you?" It was, I suppose. I wasn't allowed to give it up. This has stuck with me, but I still HATE being bad at things.
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« Reply #2446 on: 14:31:45, 13-02-2008 » |
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It was Alexandre Dumas who said "Nothing suceeds like success" wasn't it? When you get on a roll suddenly all your projects are the golden ones.
But he also said "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it." Which is oh so true.
I too hate failing Mary (being bad at something as you say) but I know, to protect myself against failure (disappointment) I do tend to bear arms against myself as quoted above which will then justify the lack of confidence in myself and the failure.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2447 on: 14:38:56, 13-02-2008 » |
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I think Marcus Aurelius said something about situations being defined by our attitude towards them.
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« Reply #2448 on: 15:57:28, 13-02-2008 » |
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I too hate failing Mary (being bad at something as you say) but I know, to protect myself against failure (disappointment) I do tend to bear arms against myself as quoted above which will then justify the lack of confidence in myself and the failure. Yes, I think that's what the Dylan lines mean. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2449 on: 22:33:23, 13-02-2008 » |
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I come to conclusion that it doesn't really matter if one has success or he doesn't. Success is ability to go on or simply survive. The most important thing is to learn not to make oneself miserable.
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« Reply #2450 on: 09:14:41, 14-02-2008 » |
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Its all to do with how our minds are at the time of any given situaition. Thats how we deal with things.
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« Reply #2451 on: 20:17:38, 15-02-2008 » |
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41 guests at the moment. Makes me wonder if they'e all in the same room.
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« Reply #2452 on: 20:24:47, 15-02-2008 » |
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And now 11. Strange.
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« Reply #2453 on: 20:41:53, 15-02-2008 » |
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Might be those spambots again ? I'm sure that Music and Society didn't have 226 folks online back in October.
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Dreams, schemes and themes
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« Reply #2454 on: 09:25:55, 16-02-2008 » |
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Going to have a new sound deck put in my car £150. Can take both MP3 and ipods + cd and radio. If my memory serves me correctly, its a Sony.
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« Reply #2455 on: 09:28:51, 16-02-2008 » |
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Just looking at the Calendar to see who else has upcoming birthdays and I notice that St. Patrick's Day is marked on it but not St. David's Day  Which coincidentally is also Martle's birthday. A double celebration then!  I couldn't see how to add it though, and also St. George's Day is not mentioned either (Bryn's birthday as well), or St. Andrew. Any chance of adding them in Mods? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2456 on: 12:05:26, 16-02-2008 » |
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Thanks, Antheil. I have put on St George's Day, being English, which starts a thread in the Welcome Section. Also Easter Day. Others can be put on by members. It strikes me as odd that St Patrick is included, but not Easter.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #2457 on: 14:07:05, 16-02-2008 » |
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Being English?? There's no such thing, is there, about being English these days??
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« Reply #2458 on: 19:52:52, 16-02-2008 » |
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'Not allowed ' brassbandmaestro !! could be considered non pc !!!
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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