1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.
I might be a part of the first two but the last one seems to fit me the most. Is it alarming? How about you?
1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.
I might be a part of the first two but the last one seems to fit me the most. Is it alarming? How about you?
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Hmm...
A mixture of 2 and 3 with a hint of 1
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Heavy on the 1
A little of the 3
If it's worth complaining about, it's completely worth doing yourself!
Very much 1...Definetly 1. I watch things a lot in order to accomplish 1.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I would break it down as follows:
30% - make things happen
35% - watch what happens
35% - wondered what happened
What Are You Crazy!!!
Great thougt for a thread Pensy, and good approach Pussnboots. I think everyone has elements of all three. I would say I'm
40% - make things happen
35% - watch what happens
25% - wondered what happened
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I'm usually too impatient to watch. So mostly i either impatiently wonder (never making the effort to actually find out) and often like to go put my own hand in matters instead of my nose.
So,
40% - make things happen
10% - watch what happens
50% - wondered what happened
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...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.
100% number one. Indisputably so.
Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
I am definitely #1.
Then something always magically goes wrong and then I become #3!
20.33285% - make things happen
24.51301% - watch what happens
55.15414% - wondered what happened
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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Ha haOriginally Posted by Dori
20.33285% - make things happen
24.51301% - watch what happens
55.15414% - wondered what happened
So typically precise...
You little maths geek
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Yes I am, and I'm proud of it!Ha ha
So typically precise...
You little maths geek
I've always wondered: why do Europeans refer to mathematics as "maths" while Americans refer to it as "math"? I think "maths" seems unnatural (when you say it).
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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Because we're all strange!
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Because it is mathematics, so it gets shorted to maths. I find 'math' very innatural myself, but then again, I am not a native speaker.
As for the question about the thread, I watch things happen. Of course I am a mixture of the three, but generally #2. As, slow observer of life. Somebody who is next to an event, but does not really take part in it; and even whilst I am in the centre of happenings, I behave as if I was not, and I feel as if I was not.
More on number 2 and 3 but constantly gathering courage to become number 1.
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