Nothing in my way of thinking is better proof of a well-ordered mind
than a man's ability to stop just where he is and passed some time in his own
company Seneca
Nothing in my way of thinking is better proof of a well-ordered mind
than a man's ability to stop just where he is and passed some time in his own
company Seneca
This story of Sleepy Hollow
starts during the battle of White Plains on November 1st, 1776. Major General
William Heath recorded in his diary that a canon took off the head of a Hessian
artilleryman. When Washington Irving came to live in the area as a boy, he
heard the story and arriving just in time for a yellow fever epidemic, he wrote
to his friends that the villagers “speak in hushed whispers the strange cries
heard in the woods”
Irving first heard
the legend of a Headless Horseman from a laborer and also from a Dutch
housewife his sister boarded with. So he wrote it all down and created a book
full of fictionalized existing folklore but purposely crammed it full of actual
stories of real people and places that he blurred the lines between fact and
fiction. As an example, Ichabod Crane was a real person who fought in the
War of 1812.
If
anyone here has ever had a moment of darkness and you've got past it,
congratulations. I pray you never do, but if you do, it's gonna get better, I
can guarantee you people that you're rubbing shoulders with right now, or
walking past on the streets, have felt exactly the same way,
Don't
keep it in, write it down, talk about it
and I can guarantee you in a day or a week or a month, you're reading what you wrote and go “Wow I never want to
feel like that again.” You accept it, you deal with it, and you move on, and in
your mind start to tell yourself “I'm OK I can do this” and trust me your life
is going to change. Letita Hughes
For
early Americans Christmas Day was no big deal, it was just another workday. In
some cities and towns, it was even outlawed as a Romanist blasphemy. And then,
in 1870, Charles Dickens wrote the novella A Christmas Carol. Soon afterward December
25 was soon recognized as a US holiday.
Is
an important thing to fail. I think failure teaches you things that you don't
learn from success, I think failure gives you an opportunity for self-examination
it also gives you a feeling that is very uncomfortable and that very
uncomfortable feeling helps you grow that when you feel like you screwed something up, like when I've had
bad podcasts. My podcasts always got better When I've had bad stand-up sets,
I've always gotten better after that because those bad sets motivate you they
get they give you a perspective like “hey here's some clear examples of where
you fucked up.” I don't look at these failures as proof that I suck, I look at them as
opportunities for growth, I look at them as opportunities to be motivated to do
better. Joe Rogan
People
will tell you life is short, but actually, life is long. I mean when I was 34 years
old, I was still 21 years away from having a book published even though I've
been busting my ass for all that long, so I would say to a younger person take some
pressure off yourself you know if it's all this bullshit in the social
media that you can do it tomorrow. You
know what? Enjoy the trip, pay attention, keep your eyes open on the journey.
it'll hit went it happens, it'll happen. Steven Pressfield
I
want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I want to thank me for having no
days off. I wanna thank me for never quitting. I want to thank me for always being a giver
and trying to give more than I received. I wanna thank me for trying to do more right
than wrong I the world. wanna thank me
for just being me at all times.Snoop Dogg
I
told everybody at 10 years old I was gonna be on TV. One problem was that I had
a severe stuttering problem. One day we were given an assignment to write on a piece
of paper what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote I want to be on TV. The
teacher called me to the front of the class, she called me up there to humiliate
me and she said “Why would you write something like this on your paper? Who in
the school has ever been on TV? Who in your family, in this neighborhood, has
ever been on TV? Look at you, standing there, you can't even talk, how they
gonna put somebody like you on TV?
So
every Christmas I sent her a flat-screen TV.
Steve Harvey
A
lot of people that I know try to make other people happy, and I'm just like, why
are you doing that?
Before
you can make anyone else happy you have to make sure you're happy yourself.
If
you've got a list of people that are extremely important to you and you're not
at the top of that list …….man, something is wrong.
Now
people will dictate to you and tell you how should live your life, but
ultimately you are the main person to decide how you should live your life. You decide to be happy, do what you enjoy, do
what makes you happy, think about yourself for once before you make other
people happy, and make sure you're happy yourself.
The
actual endings of Disney movies from your childhood are surprising. As an
example, in the original story of
Sleeping Beauty,(A German tale) the Prince impregnated the girl, Sleeping beauty, while she was sleeping. She conceived
two children from the rape.
A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the Money and Run."
BY CAITLIN O'KANE
A Danish artist was given $84,000
by a museum to use in a work of art. When he delivered the piece he was supposed
to make, it was not as promised. Instead, the artist, Jens Haaning, gave the
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark two blank canvases and said
they were titled "Take the Money and Run."
Haaning was asked to recreate two
of his previous works: 2010's "An Average Danish Annual Income" and
"An Average Austrian Annual Income," first exhibited in 2007. Both
used actual cash to show the average incomes of the two countries, according to
a news release from the artist.
In addition to compensation for
the work, Haaning was also give bank notes to use in the work, museum director
Lasse Andersson told CBS News via email. Their contract even stated the museum
would give Haaning an additional 6,000 euros to update the work, if needed,
Andersson said. At the time the works were initially exhibited, the Danish
piece highlighted the average income of 328,000 kroner, approximately $37,800,
while the average Austrian salary illustrated was around €25,000, or $29,000.
For the "Work it Out"
exhibit at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Haaning was meant to fill frames
with money. But they were empty.
"We also have a contract
that the money $84,000 US dollars to be displayed in the work is not Jens' and
that it must be paid back when the exhibition closes on 16 January 2022,"
Andersson said.
"The exhibition is called
'Work it Out' and features works of art by many different contemporary
artists," he said, adding that the exhibition It runs from September 24 to
January 16, 2022.
Andersson said when they spoke to
the artist about making the piece earlier this year, he agreed to the contract
and "he indicated a fairly easy job."
But when it came time for Haaning
to actually deliver, he did the unexpected.
"The curator received an
email in which Jens Haaning wrote that he had made a new piece of art work and
changed the work title into 'Take the Money and Run,'" Andersson said.
"Subsequently, we could ascertain that the money had not been put into the
work."
Indeed, the frames meant to be
filled with cash were empty.
"The staff was very
surprised when they opened the crates. I was abroad when the crates were
opened, but suddenly received a lot of mails," Andersson said.
When he finally saw "Take
the Money and Run," Andersson said he actually laughed. "Jens is
known for his conceptual and activistic art with a humoristic touch. And he
gave us that – but also a bit of a wake up call as everyone know wonders were
did the money go," he said.
According to Haaning's press
release, "the idea behind was to show how salaries can be used to measure
the value of work and to show national differences within the European Union.
But by changing the title of the work to "Take the Money and Run"
Haaning "questions artists' rights and their working conditions in order
to establish more equitable norms within the art industry."
"Everyone would like to have
more money and, in our society, work industries are valued differently,"
Haaning said in a statement. "The artwork is essentially about the working
conditions of artists. It is a statement saying that we also have the
responsibility of questioning the structures that we are part of. And if these
structures are completely unreasonable, we must break with them. It can be your
marriage, your work - it can be any type of societal structure".
Andersson said while it wasn't
what they had agreed on in the contract, the museum got new and interesting
art. "When it comes to the amount of $84,000, he hasn't broke any contract
yet as the initial contract says we will have the money back on January 16th
2022."
The museum director said they'll
wait and see what Haaning does, but if the money is not returned on January 16,
"we will of course take the necessary steps to ensure that Jens Haaning
complies with his contract."
He said they are in contact with
Haaning, who he called a "well-respected and well-known artist in
Denmark." But they have yet to reach an agreement.
In the beginning, there was
begietan, and begietan begot beyeten; then in the days of Middle English
beyeten begot begeten. All of the Old English and Middle English ancestors
above basically meant the same thing as the modern beget—that is, "to father"
or "to produce as an effect or outgrowth." That linguistic line with
the prefix mis- (meaning "wrongly" or "badly") brought
forth misbegotten.
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