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Discussion in 'Non-Dama Drama' started by goenKendama, Apr 4, 2017.

  1. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    Guilt should never be experienced, only inflicted.
    This was advice a friend of mine received from her mother. :eek: Thanks for passing along this wisdom SZP wherever you are.
     
    May 12, 2017
  2. goenKendama

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    石の上にも三年 - Ishi no ue nimo san-nen - Three years on a stone.

    This is a Japanese proverb about being patient and persevering. The meaning of this is that even the coldest stone will warm eventually, if you sit on it long enough.
     
    May 18, 2017
  3. goenKendama

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    Found this reposted on FB. Thought it was a pretty good quote/photo match.


     
    Jun 19, 2017
  4. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
    — Robert Heinlein from Time Enough for Love
     
    Jun 27, 2017
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    "Practice makes permanent"
    From my high school band director, Marty Worthington.
    You can practice until it's 'perfect' but if you practice it wrong then you'll be doing it 'perfectly wrong'.
     
    Jun 27, 2017
  6. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    You got that right!
     
    Jun 28, 2017
  7. KeeganS

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    Also,
    "Wise man say, 'Forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza.'"
     
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  8. Gasiek

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    Screenshot_2017-06-29-08-44-15.png This is my life quote by ~ @htimSxelA
    "Keep playing kendama"
     
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  9. Stuart Barron

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    "Never rub another man's rhubarb" Jack Nicholsons Joker
     
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  10. goenKendama

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    You can't always get what you want
    But if you try sometimes you just might find
    You just might find
    You get what you need

    Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
     
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    "For once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return"
    Leonardo Da Vinci
     
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  12. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    Always liked that one.
     
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  13. azleonhart

    azleonhart Moderator Staff Member

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    Just finished watching the first season of "Genius" by Nat Geo and i love some of Einstein's quotes:

    - "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."

    - "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
     
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  14. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
     
    Jul 28, 2017
  15. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup. --Turkish Proverb
     
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    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    Age: It's not the years, it's the mileage.
    - unknown
     
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  17. Emil Apostol

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    "You are what you do repeatedly. Excellence is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
     
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  18. Emil Apostol

    Emil Apostol DS Legend

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    Also, a Filipino proverb for you all:

    "Kung ayaw, may dahilan. Kung gusto, may paraan."

    Roughly translates to:

    "If you don't want it, there's a reason. If you want it, there's a way."
     
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  19. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    Nothing like a little local flavor, thanks.
     
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  20. azleonhart

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    Oh hey, that’s somewhat similar to a local quote in Malaysia :

    “Hendak seribu daya, tak hendak seribu dalih”


    Translated, it (roughly) reads :

    “There’s a thousand ways to want something, and a thousand to not.”
     
    Oct 25, 2017
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