#waiting — Public Fediverse posts
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Another Psalm for you all my friends, about waiting--as we all love that so much. Happy Weekend! #AlignWithLove #Psalms #Philosophy #Love #Weekend #Waiting #Time #JesusCalling
https://align-with-love.com/2026/05/08/the-psalms-project-continued-2/
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rain all morning, each
rain all morning, each
#anticipation #clearSkies #dailyPost #expect #expectation #forecast #haiku #may #may7 #minute #morning #poem #poetry #postaday #rain #rainy #slow #spring #swell #swelling #time #wait #waiting #weather
minute passing by swells with
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rain all morning, each
rain all morning, each
#anticipation #clearSkies #dailyPost #expect #expectation #forecast #haiku #may #may7 #minute #morning #poem #poetry #postaday #rain #rainy #slow #spring #swell #swelling #time #wait #waiting #weather
minute passing by swells with
anticipation
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20260507:1846
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rain all morning, each
rain all morning, each
#anticipation #clearSkies #dailyPost #expect #expectation #forecast #haiku #may #may7 #minute #morning #poem #poetry #postaday #rain #rainy #slow #spring #swell #swelling #time #wait #waiting #weather
minute passing by swells with
anticipation
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20260507:1846
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rain all morning, each
rain all morning, each
#anticipation #clearSkies #dailyPost #expect #expectation #forecast #haiku #may #may7 #minute #morning #poem #poetry #postaday #rain #rainy #slow #spring #swell #swelling #time #wait #waiting #weather
minute passing by swells with
anticipation
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20260507:1846
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Waiting Together • Cartagena, Colombia
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Cartagena #Colombia #People #Waiting #Together #Street #City #Outdoors #April_29_2026
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Kem Ormond’s vegetable garden: Winter is coming and the birds are already waiting https://www.allforgardening.com/1719532/kem-ormonds-vegetable-garden-winter-is-coming-and-the-birds-are-already-waiting/ #already #also #and #are #birds #Coming #country #features #feed #garden #gardener #is #keen #kem #ormond #ormonds #Planning #Shes #the #this #Vegetable #waiting #week #winter #writer
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Seeing Around Corners
The phrase “seeing around corners” gets tossed around boardrooms and strategy meetings as though it were a compliment, a kind of secular beatification for the executive or thinker who got there first. But the phrase deserves closer scrutiny, because what it actually describes is a discipline, and one that most people refuse to practice because the conclusions it produces are uncomfortable.
The spatial metaphor is simple enough. Walking down a city street, you cannot see what waits beyond the next corner. A person who could would hold an obvious tactical advantage, whether the thing around the bend is an opportunity or a threat. When we apply that metaphor to business, politics, or creative life, we are talking about pattern recognition operating at a high level: the ability to read weak signals in the present and extrapolate them into likely futures before those futures become obvious to everyone else.
Andy Grove understood this better than most. When he recognized in the mid-1980s that Intel’s commodity memory chip business was dying, the financial data had not yet made the case undeniable. Competitors in Japan were undercutting prices, margins were thinning, and the trajectory pointed toward irrelevance. Grove asked his colleague Gordon Moore a question that has since become famous in business history: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what would he do?” The answer was clear. He would get out of memory chips. So Grove and Moore did exactly that, pivoting Intel toward microprocessors and building the foundation for decades of dominance. Grove did not predict the future. He read the present more honestly than his peers were willing to, and then followed the logic to its conclusion.
That distinction matters. Seeing around corners is a discipline of interpretation, not a form of prophecy. Prophecy implies access to information no one else possesses. What Grove had was the same data available to every other semiconductor executive in the industry. The difference was his willingness to accept what the data meant rather than constructing reasons to ignore it. Most strategic failures originate in interpretation, or more precisely, in nerve. The signals were there. The pattern was legible. Someone chose not to read it.
In publishing, the same principle applies with brutal regularity. The collapse of the traditional bookstore model did not arrive without warning. Independent booksellers had been losing ground to chains for years, and the chains were losing ground to online retail long before Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011. The warning signs were visible a decade earlier to anyone who cared to look: declining foot traffic, rising real estate costs, a consumer base increasingly habituated to the convenience of clicking rather than browsing. Publishers who saw around that particular corner had time to build direct relationships with readers, to invest in digital infrastructure, to rethink distribution. Those who waited for the crisis to arrive in full view found themselves scrambling with no lead time and fewer options.
Lead time is the currency that seeing around corners produces. The insight itself has limited value if it does not convert into action, and action requires time. Recognizing a collapsing market six months before it collapses gives you six months to prepare. Recognizing it three years out gives you three years to build alternatives, test them, and refine them before the pressure arrives. The earlier the recognition, the wider the range of possible responses. Wait too long and the range narrows to one: react.
This is why the phrase carries an implicit warning whenever someone says it is “important” to see around corners. The word “important” is doing real work in that sentence. It signals that reactive thinking is insufficient for the situation at hand, that the stakes are high enough to demand anticipation rather than response. A doctor who sees around corners catches the early indicators of a disease before it presents with symptoms. A playwright who sees around corners recognizes that audience expectations are shifting before the box office receipts confirm it. In each case, the advantage belongs to the person who treats the present as evidence rather than as a settled condition.
The discipline has a cost, though. Seeing around corners often means arriving at conclusions that no one else shares, and defending those conclusions against people who are emotionally or financially invested in the current arrangement. It also means accepting the risk that your reading of the signals is wrong, that you are abandoning a viable position based on a pattern that never materializes. Grove faced enormous internal resistance when he proposed abandoning memory chips, a product line that had defined Intel since its founding. The resistance was not irrational. People had built careers around that business. Factories were tooled for it. Customers expected it. Telling an organization that the thing it does best is the thing it needs to stop doing requires a tolerance for isolation that most people do not possess, and a willingness to own the consequences if the foresight proves mistaken.
The real question, then, is whether you are willing to act on what you see. Everyone grants that seeing around corners is a useful skill. Fewer people reckon with the fact that the history of failed enterprises is full of leaders who recognized a coming disruption, documented it in internal memos, discussed it in private meetings, and then did nothing because the present was still comfortable enough to justify inaction. Seeing is the first step. Acting on what you see, before the evidence is so overwhelming that everyone else sees it too, is the step that separates foresight from regret.
#business #corners #fear #findingOut #garden #invention #meaning #meme #philosophy #safety #tech #urban #waiting -
"Make difficult decisions sooner. (Even when you don't want to)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--At one moment in time, I had Google Claude analyze the thousands of blog posts I've written since 2002, to try to come up with a list of the unique phrases I've come up with through the years. It came back with a massive list. and called them "Jim'isms." I'm pretty proud of the list, since these phrases often capture the essence of the ideas I share with my clients and readers.
The one I am proudest of is probably the one with which you are most familiar: "aggressive indecision." I coined it back in 2002 to describe the tendency among my clients to make the tough decisions that need to be made, particularly when uncertainty reigns.
And it led me to believe that the most dangerous words in any business or life are, "Let's wait and see."
When we wait, we fail. We might tell ourselves we are being prudent, being cautious, but usually, we are just being hesitant. In my 36-year voyage, I’ve learned that the difficulty of a decision doesn’t decrease with time: it only compounds. To stay ahead of the curve, you must learn to make difficult decisions sooner, especially when you don't want to.
Every successful pivot I’ve made in my career and business required me to cut ties with something comfortable but declining. Whether it was walking away from a stable career path or sunsetting a keynote topic that was still "doing okay," the hardest part identify8ing what I needed to do. It involved actually doing it.
As humans, we are engineered, it seems, to avoid the tough decisions. And yet often, that's the only way to get ahead!
The simple fact is this: if you wait until you are forced to make a decision, you aren't pivoting; you’re reacting.
Making decisions sooner -m even when you don't want to - is the antidote to aggressive indecision. Most organizations and people stay stuck because they treat difficult choices like a burden to be avoided rather than a strategic advantage to be seized. By making the tough call early, when you still have resources and momentum, you control the future to the extent you can. If you wait until your hand is forced, the market (or the crisis) controls you.
Don't let the weight of a difficult choice paralyze you.
Make the call.
Futurist Jim Carroll believes that 'aggressive indecision' is the root cause of most failure.
**#Decisions** **#AggressiveIndecision** **#Action** **#Courage** **#Sooner** **#Pivot** **#Leadership** **#Waiting** **#Momentum** **#Jimisms** **#Strategy** **#Tough** **#Paralysis** **#Control** **#Future** **#Freelance**
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Ah, the brilliant #innovation of #waiting a whole N days before updating! 🤔 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge security" like hoping someone else finds the #malware first. 🐢💤 Just sit back, relax, and let others do the dirty work while you sip your #coffee and ride the #dependency coattails. ☕🪑
https://calpaterson.com/deps.html #security #HackerNews #ngated -
I will delay adding a profile picture...I'll wait for the right moment.
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A man waits alone on a concrete platform at Birmingham New Street.
The activity stops just outside the frame, leaving only a paused journey.#photography #photo #Stillness #urban #street #station #railway #Birmingham #TrainStation #Waiting
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"Waiting for total clarity is the fastest way to become irrelevant". - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
---When I walked out of the corporate world 36 years ago, I thought I needed a five-year plan.
That’s actually kind of funny to think about now.
I quickly realized that in a world of high-velocity change, a five-year plan is certainly on the list of things that won’t happen! I came to learn that the real danger I faced wasn’t a bad plan; it was what I’ve come to call the Clarity Trap.
That’s the belief that you must see the entire path before you take the first step!
Since then, I’ve spent three decades watching the brilliant leaders and organizations become caught in the trap. I’ve seen them paralyze their future because they were “waiting for the dust to settle,” for the path forward to become clear, for the future to be more certain. And they end up waiting a long time. All the while, they think they are being diligent, but as they wait for the “perfect” view ahead, the landscape they were studying has already shifted.
Whether you are running a global corporation or a solo practice, if you wait for 100% certainty, you are already too late.
I didn’t have a map for the last 36 years; I believed the trends I was watching were going to unfold into something bigger. When I dove into the early Internet in 1994, the technology was messy, and the business models were nonexistent. Yet I didn’t wait for clarity; I gained clarity by moving.
The Infinite Pivot requires you to execute on partial data, imperfect information, and a stunning lack of focus. You have to be willing to move when the clarity of the future is still uncertain — and be prepared to adjust your course mid-flight. This is particularly true when uncertainty dominates and volatility rages. Your only real protection at this point is momentum. If you are moving, at least you can steer. If you are standing still, you are just a target for disruption.
This reality becomes even more challenging in an exponential world. The “safe” move of waiting for more information is actually the riskiest move you can make. The only way to find out if a pivot works is to make the turn.
Stop waiting for the “right” time.
The right time is the moment you realize that standing still is a choice to be obsolete.
---Futurist Jim Carroll has learned that chasing an unclear future is one of the most important things we can do.
#Clarity #Trap #Action #Momentum #Uncertainty #Movement #Plans #Pivot #Risk #Waiting #Paralysis #Disruption #Speed #Decisions #Leadership #Freelance #Lessons
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Lair of the Sea Serpent, Elihu Vedder
going back to work tomorrow after vacation.
Some kind of potency in this, I was thinking that the sea serpent is clearly huge, but the wide expanse of sand and sea puts the whole thing in perspective, the sea serpent is humbled. and near to the ground. More dangerous because it's real. Why isn't it in the sea? hurt, dying? or it soaks up the sun?
#art #painting #realistic #elihuVedder #seaSerpent #fear #darkness #waiting #danger #serpent #sun #sand #ouroboros
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BOJ seen waiting till April for rate hike amid Iran war turbulence
Bank of Japan High oil prices may hit Japan’s economy, spur inflation as bank tries to normalize policy…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #april #AU #Australia #BOJ #Business #hike #Iran #rate #seen #turbulence #waiting #war
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Modern Waiting by කේදාර KhE
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxi-rOjKCu00
#2025 #ilford #kentmere #noritsukoki #olympus #olympuspen #scanned #bw #bwfilm #film #iso200 #khedara #street #streetphotography #london #blackandwhite #contrast #lightandshadow #solitude #candid #urban #architecture #textures #mensfashion #live #sport #waiting #35mm #monochrome #flickr
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Video 4-year-old waiting for transplant gets messages of hope from construction
https://misryoum.com/us/us/video-4-year-old-waiting-for-transplant-gets/
4-year-old waiting for transplant gets messages of hope from construction crewLinsey Davis shares the special bond between a group of construction workers and 4-year-old Brinley, who is awaiting a heart transplant, at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital.March 7, 2026
#Video #4yearold #waiting #for #transplant #gets #messages #hope #from #construction #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingNearlyButNotQuiteSupperTimeNotNews; #IT's #TotallyNotNews with #SomeNotNews...
#MyLittleBigBuddy is #InAMood; his #NewToyJoy #Still hasn't been #Delivered yet and there are #AFewSixFooters on #StandBy #Waiting for #ITs #Arrival...
We shall have to #Think of #SomethingElse #ToDo while we're #StillWaiting...
#ISuppose we could #AllPopDown to #TheShed and #DrinkBeer and #TakeALook at #MyLittleBigBuddy's #ItchyArsehole... #Again...
#YouKnow, for a #Second and #Third #Opinions; #Maybe a #Fourth and #Fifth #Opinions, too... | #PopPopPop
He #PlaysWell with #Others... And, #MoreIsBetter, #Right... | #LookNoQuestionMark
#IT'll #TakeHisMind #OffIT...
#BTW: The #GoodGrass is #ReallyGood... And, there's #LoadsOfIT...
🧙:fediverse:🤖:wolfparty:🤖:fediverse:🧙 | :PirateBadge:🎠🦹🦄🦹🎠:PirateBadge:
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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At long last! The print proof of Return of the Ripper has arrived.
I checked it over and approved it for sale on #DriveThruRPG : "Request Submitted: Please Wait Three Days."
https://tube.fediverse.games/w/j9fvYWviftKmssTyFNA1Nh
#waiting #anticipation #DCC #DCCRPG #DungeonCrawlClassics #TTRPG #fantasy #horror #adventure #book
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It is better to #travel than to #arrive.
But #waiting? That's the worst of all.#StreetPhotography #London #Railway #photography #trains #RailwayStation
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https://www.evshift.com/374891/jasion-retrovolt-pro-the-electric-bike-revolution-weve-been-waiting-for/ Jasion RetroVolt Pro: The Electric Bike Revolution We’ve Been Waiting For #BestEbike #BestElectricBike #bike #ebike #Ebikes #ELECTRIC #ElectricBikeReview #ElectricBikes #ElectricMotorcycles #ElectricVehicles #EV #Jasion #JasionElectricBike #JasionRetrovolt #JasionRetroVoltPro #motorcycles #Pro #Retrovolt #Revolution #Waiting #Weve
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I'm using dd to clone a 1Tb disk. It seemed to be taking ages, so I checked the collective knowledge ... around eight hours is typical! Kill me now!
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That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. by josebrito21
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxiVplr2qa00
#sãobento #travelphotography #traveldestination #train #trainstation #blackwhite #blackandwhite #oneman #oneperson #book #waiting #streetphotography #pretoebranco #fotografiaderua #street #josébrito #josebrito2 #josébritophotography #josébritofotografia #josébritofotos #josébritophotos #josébritoimages #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Kalau saya rindu tunang yang lepas...
Kalau saya rindu cinta yang lepas...
Itu bermaksud saya salah mentafsir isyarat otak saya sendiri.
Tafsiran isyarat otak tersebut yang sebenarnya adalah:
Saya rindu isteri masa depan saya.
Dia akan datang! Tidak sabar untuk bertemu!
#Cinta #Rindu #MasaDepan #Harapan #Love #FutureWife #RelationshipGoals #Inspiration #Quote #MalayQuote #LifeReflection #Optimism #MentalHealth #Hope #Jodoh #TrueLove #Reflection #Waiting
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The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part - Tom PettyYep waiting near Point D in the R-2508 Sidewinder Low Level Complex, April 2021 #waiting #sidewinder #planespotting #AvGeek #r2508 #nikon
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I want to post a risky post actually, but I'm still considering the good platform for that post. Would it be good to post it here?
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #mastodon #asking #ask #genuinequestion #genuinelyasking #isitokay #isitgood #thinking #imthinking #iamthinking #stillthinking #question #questions #risky #riskypost #post #posts #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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san francisco, california
august 1969two young men, waiting
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard ...
But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Guards, Guards (1989)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7722…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #beheard #caution #courage #cowardice #dissent #murmuring #protest #standingup #steppingup #support #waiting
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Well, another day begins of waiting waiting waiting for parcels to arrive, this time, 8x 6x4 photos which Kmart in it's infinite wisdom decided to print out in whoop whoop and send via a parcel courier instead of bloody posting like normal human beings!.. and a new ottoman, and a glass memorial photo frame... waiting waiting waiting fun fun fun etc...
#Parcels #Parcel #Post #Mail #Deliveries #Australia #Waiting #WastedDays #etc #Adelaide
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"sueños de príncipe azul..."
#listening #listeningtomusic #eduardomateo #príncipeazul #dreams #sleepy #waiting #dusk #dusky #sunset #sunsetlovers #anochece #suburbios #barrio #uruguay #ireland
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