Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Failure quotes
Failure Quotes and Sayings
FAILUREisonly atemporary chantionetoustraightoryournextsuccessOnly thosewho dareto fail greatly caneverachieve greatlyur busineinlife is nottosucceed, but toontinue tofail ingoodpirits.If thereexists nopossibility offailure, hen victory is meaningless ailuri aman hasblunderedbut is notcapable fcashingin on the experience.Remember, noman is afailure who has friends.One mustbegod to be abl to tell uccessesrom failureswithout makingamistakeExperience is simplythenamewegive ur mistakes.Success
isgoing from failure to failurewithout losingnthusiasmThe only real failure in life is the failureto tryThere ar noecrets to succes resultof preparation hard workand learningrom failureLife’seal faile is whenou donotrealize how close yowere tsuccesswhen you gave up.Success builds character, failure reveals iThere are no ailures just experiences and your reactions to themFailure is the tuition you pay for successA man may allmany times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someonpushedhim.Failure is notfalling down but refusing to get upYou cannot do wrong without suffering wronHe who failto plan, plans to fail.Defeat is not theworst of failures. Not to have tried is the truefailure.Notice thedifference betweenwhhappens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failureI have not failed. I’ve just found 10ways thatwon’t workNeveconfuse a single defeat withainal defeat.
Monday, April 27, 2015
George Gershwin: the graceful ghost
A few more intriguing bits about Gershwin’s work, indicating he must have had a deep interest in Jewish mysticism:
In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (Yiddish: דיבוק, from
Hebrew word meaning adhere or cling) is a malicious possessing spirit believed
to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
A migrant soul?! And perhaps Ira, raised in the same tradition, was subconsciously thinking of the same thing, his soul merging with his brother’s. I don’t see GG as a dybbuk at all – he was a gentle soul and everyone loved him, though I also think he was extremely lonely and was completely disoriented after his death. And yet, if you strip away the evil connotations, a dybbuk is just an unhappy camper like a ghost, frustrated or feeling incomplete or not listened to. This is why Chanon in the story is “reduced to practicing evil rites,” because he felt so powerless.
I
am very surprised, but perhaps I shouldn’t be, that the writer of I Got
Rhythm and Rhapsody in Blue could be so interested in dark Jewish
ritual, but he did after all grow up bilingual, i. e. speaking Yiddish, so the
stories were there. You look at this and think: George Gershwin? Mysticism,
migrant souls, WHAT? Then you dig up all this stuff. Instead of
developing The Dybbuk (the rights were tied up), he wrote Porgy and
Bess which was also about a marginalized and powerless black community.
There is a chilling song in it called The Buzzard which is about a vast
dark bird waiting to swoop down and feed on Porgy’s flesh: he tells it, “Ain’t
nobody dead this mornin’!” This is like something out of classic
myth.
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
49 Everyday Phrases by William Shakespeare!
Shakespearian phrases we use every day! Try to have a conversation without them.
Illustrated by my best friend, father, brother, uncle, cousin, and all-around mitochondrial chimera, William Shatner.
(There were supposed to be 50 of these. I don't know what happened to the last one.)
- "Dead as a doornail" - Henry VI, Part II
- "Not slept one wink" - Cymbeline
- "The world's mine oyster" - The Merry Wives of
- "Bedazzled" - The Taming of the Shrew
- "In stitches" - Twelfth Night
- "Addiction" - Othello
- "Faint-hearted" - Henry VI, Part I
- "One fell swoop" - Macbeth
- "Vanish into thin air" - Othello
- "Swagger" - Henry V
- "Own flesh and blood" - Hamlet
- "Zany" - Love's Labour's Lost
- "Give the devil his due" - Henry IV, Part I
- "There's method in my madness" - Hamlet
- "Salad days" - Antony and Cleopatra
- "Spotless reputation" - Richard II
- "Full circle" - King Lear
- "All of a sudden" - The Taming of the Shrew
- "Come what, come may" - Macbeth
- "Fancy-free" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- "Lie low" - Much Ado About Nothing
- "Send packing" - Henry IV
- "Foregone conclusion" - Othello
- "A sorry sight" - Macbeth
- "For goodness sake" - Henry VIII
- "Good riddance" - The Merchant of Venice
- "Neither here not there" - Othello
- "Mum's the word" - Henry VI, Part II
- "What's done is done" - Macbeth
- "Eaten out of house and home" - Henry IV, Part II
- "Rant" - Hamlet
- "Knock knock! Who's there?" - Macbeth
- "With bated breath" - The Merchant of Venice
- "A wild goose chase" - Romeo and Juliet
- "Assassination" - Macbeth
- "Too much of a good thing" - As You Like It
- "A heart of gold" - Henry V
- "Such stuff as dreams are made on" - The Tempest
- "Fashionable" - Troilus and Cressida
- "Puking" - As You Like It
- “Green-eyed monster” – The Merchant of Venice
- “As good luck would have it” – The Merry Wives of Windsor
- “The be-all and end-all” – Macbeth
- “A sorry sight” – Macbeth
- “Fair play” – The Tempest
- “Good riddance” – The Merchant of Venice
- “In a pickle” – The Tempest
- “Love is blind” – The Merchant of Venice
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