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Gary Thain, Part II
Gary Thain, Part IIby Michael DoylePainfully thin on Heep’s stoic stage,Gary Thain’s bass set the tone of the page.There in rock’s mighty kingdom,Came the mystic whisper of Sweet Freedom.This kind of lifestyle takes its toll.That’s just the price of rock-n-roll.Caught … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Appetite, Bass, Cautionary Tale, Chater Member, Choices, Club 27, Consumption, Depth of Pain, Disease, Fact, Fair, Gary Thain, Genuis, Heaven, Hell, Lifestyle, Pain, Path of Destruction, Pathos, Poetry and Poems, Price, Quiet Man, Rock, Self-Loathing, Sensitivity, Shock, Short Life, Stage, Sweet Freedom, Talent, Toll, Tone, Touring, Undoing, Uriah Heep, Wonderworld, Wrong or Right
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First Principles: Persistence and Determination Alone Are Omnipotent
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Collidge, Determiination, Education, First Prcples, Genuis, Omniipoteent, Persistence, Proverb, Talent, World
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Thought For the Day: It Takes A Lot of Time To Be A Genius, You Have To Sit Around So Much Doing Nothing, Really Doing Nothing
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.” – Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (3 Feb 1874-1946)
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Tagged Genuis, Gertrude Stein, Nothing, Sit, Thought For the Day, Time
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist's Confession, Confident, Control, Dangerous, Deal, Death, Depravity, Disobedience, Drink Away, Duress, Equally Unafraid, Evil, Explanation, Feeling, Genuis, Great Ideas, Heart, History, Holidy, Immoral, Indignity, Innocent, Knife Blade, Lips, Madman, Mask, Mystery, Old Records, Pain, Paint, Painter, Pawns, Phantom Lover, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Portrait, Possibility, Rationalization, Regrets, Rewrite History, Right Impression, Saint, See, Sitter, Skill Set, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Strangeness of Life, Survivors, Truth, Virtue, Wolves, Wonder
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First Principles: Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It’s the Going On When You Don’t Have the Strength
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Tagged Advantage, Courage, Determination, First Principles, Genuis, Go On, Industry, Strength, Theodore Roosevelt
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Thought For the Day: Nothing In the World Can Replace Persistence
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Derelict, Determination, Educatioin, Genuis, Nothing, Omnipotent, Persistence, Proverb, Talen, Thought For the Day
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