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In the Daze of My Youth
In the Daze of My Youthby Michael DoyleI found myself recently taking a pause,Reliving the music that brought applause.You see, in the daze of my youth,Led Zeppelin and the like were my truth.Whatever it was, the critics said,They seemed a … Continue reading
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Tagged Applause, Classic Rock, Communication Breakdown, Critic, Cross-Fade, Daze, Eternity, History, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Music, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Robert Plant, Rock, Sequence, Skill, Song, Truth, Will, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Only Those Who Have the Patience To Do Simple Things Perfectly Will Acquire the Skill To Do Difficult Things Easily
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” – Friedrich Schiller, Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. vii (1803 — This line out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishments, Acquire, Basics, Chords, Complex, Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Difficult Things, Dreams, Easy, Excellence, Foundation, Friedrich Schiller, Fundamental, Mantra, Masterpiece, Music, Notes, Patience, Perfectly, Scales, Simple Things, Skill, Songs, Those, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: When Love and Skill Work Together, Expect A Masterpiece
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)
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Tagged Expect, John Ruskin, Love, Masterpiece, Skill, Thought For the Day, Together, Work
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First Principles: If Your Determination Is Fixed, I Do Not Counsel You To Despair. Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence and Skill
“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
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Tagged Counsel, Deetermination, Despair, Diligence, Few Things, First Principles, Fixed, Great Works, Impossible, Performed, Perseverance, Samuel Johnson, Skill, Strength
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The Spaces Between
The Spaces Betweenby Michael DoyleIn all the paradigms that are shiftedThe moral compasses that have driftedThe zeros, the ones, and those in-betweenAfford the perfected moments as human beingsWould it only be that all things of clarityWere as equal and equitable … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Between, Biology, Clairty, Dignity, Distortions, Drfit, Eggs and Chickens, Emprical, Endurance, Equal, Equitable, Face, Flashpoints of Ideology, Full Opportunity, Gap, Gender Biology, God, Homones, Human Beings, In-between, Inherent Advantages, Integrity, Limits of Biology, Male and Female, Moral Compasses, Occurrence, Paradigm, Performance Ceilings, Poetry and Poems, Political Identity, Political Will, Potential, Power, Puberty, Questions, Resources, Scientific Credential, Self-Righteous Feelings, Shift, Sincerity, Skill, Space, Spaces, Speed, Strategy, Tale, Test, Testosterone, Trajectory, Wholistic, Wome, Wrong-Minded Ideology, Youth, Zenith
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Born In the Rockies (Part I)
Born In the Rockies (Part I)by Michael DoyleSpring has come with this mornAs another young life is bornEach step in the Rockies must be solvedAt every turn, there are tests to be resolvedEvery opportunity is used to hone skillsIn Mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby, Born, Child, Decade, Destiny, Diligence, February, Flight, Flock, Generations, Journey, Light, Morn, Morning's Light, Mother, Mother Nature, Opprtunity, Poetry and Poems, Resolve, Rocky Mountain, Sandhill Crane, Security, Skill, Solve, Spring, Springtime, Thousand, Vigilance, Wild
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First Principles: To Take From One…Is To Violate Arbitrarily the First Principle of Association, the Guarantee To Everyone the Free Exercise of…Industry
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquired, Arbitarily, First Principles, Free Exercise, Fruits, Guarantee, Industry, Principle of Association, Skill, Spare, Take, Thomas Jefferson
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A Dragon Born
A Dragon Bornby Michael DoyleIn the province of Henan, gungfu was bornTo rise to defeat China’s enemies as swornShaolin’s grace side by side with Tai Chi’s schoolBrought honor to their disciples’ ruleA battle head was one of strictly set contestFighting … Continue reading
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Tagged All That Is Left, Alley Ways, Anger and Pride, Avoid, Battle, Born, Brick, Building Up, China, Contest, Deciding Factor, Defeat, Disciple, Discipline, Dragon, Ebb and Flow, Enemy, Equilibrium, Every Moment, Extra Weight, Fall, Fate, Fights, Forget, Game, Glass, Glory, Grace, Gracious, Grow, Gungfu, Hard Learned, Henan, Hollywood, Honor, Humility, Importance, Increase, Increasing Strife, Inside, Keep Control, Lessons, Life Comes, Live, Live Strong, Live Yet Another Day, Lost In Life, Need, Other Person's Head, Pain, Path, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Province, Restoration, Rule, Seal, Seifoo, Shaolin, Share, Side By Side, Skill, Spirit Unbroken, Spoken, Step By Step, Street, Strict, Tai Chi, Tea, Torn Down, Trick, True, Unspoken, Victory's Crown, Ways, When, Whisper, Will, Win, Won, Words
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