Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 61
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Source: Four Quartets: LIttle Gidding
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Wisdom 62
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
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Wisdom 63
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
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Wisdom 64
When you come to a fork in the road,
take it.
Yogi Berra
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Wisdom 65
Let me drop everything
and work on your problem.
Unknown kind person
Source: Seen by Maarten Thissen on the T shirt of a man named Chainsaw, working as a roadie to Melissa Etheridge
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Wisdom 66
We old English teachers never die,
we just lapse into a comma.
Walt Hopkins
Source: With thanks to Lynne Truss, author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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Wisdom 67
Oh how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day
That now shows all the beauty of the sun
And by and by a cloud takes all away.
William Shakespeare
Source: Two Gentlemen of Verona
Comment: "The uncertain glory of an April day" is my favourite Shakespearean line
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Wisdom 68
We old historians never die,
we just fade into another primary source.
Walt Hopkins
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Wisdom 69
Blending careful preparation
with informed improvisation.
Walt Hopkins
Comment: My top skill, refined after defining and setting priorities on more than a thousand skills with Dick Bolles at the 1977 Parachute two-week workshop.
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Wisdom 70
Our way of ensemble playing is not that someone leads and everyone else just follows. . . .
everyone is thinking towards a central point. . . .
We don't follow each other; we play together.
David Soyer
Source: The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum
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