Category: Rimshots

Rimshots #6 “Freedom”

 William  October 5, 2004  4 Comments on Rimshots #6 “Freedom”

The freedom of the subjective person to do as he pleases is overruled by the freedom of the responsible person to do as he must. – Michael Polanyi (HT Prosthesis)

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Rimshots #5 “Good Judgment”

 William  September 29, 2004

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience–well, that come from poor judgment. — Cousin Woodman

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Rimshots #4 “Intentions”

 William  September 13, 2004

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold–but so does a hard-boiled egg. — Anonymous.

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Rimshots #3 “No Pain, No Gain”

 William  September 9, 2004

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne. The intellectual version of the “No pain, no gain” aphorism.

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Rimshots #2 “Habits”

 William  August 17, 2004  2 Comments on Rimshots #2 “Habits”

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle Taken from my article on Habits.

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Rimshots #1 “Laws of Rim Citizenship”

 William  August 13, 2004

You have kept the first spiritual law of Rim Citizenship when you are where you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to do, when God goes looking for you.

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