“Unless you’re using speech as a practical asset like Mcgregor or Ali, don’t waste your breath spewing fiery words or empty platitudes. Do the job and talk about it later.”
—Paraphrased from people who get stuff done.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha
Musings and books from a grunty overthinker
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Good advice. Also,don’t fritter away too much of your time reading blogs devoted to badly written expressions of widely held opinions…to paraphrase a line from a novel i’m reading. (Present company excluded of course!)
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LOL, what novel? I guess if I wanted to be snarky/cheeky, I might reply with, “at the risk of throwing out another widely held opinion, it seems that too many folks like to talk and never walk, proving that my other widely held opinion is still relevant. And bad writing is a subjective judgment that seems to draw less consensus if you keep forging ahead, or in other words: Haters gonna hate.” (Present company excluded, of course!) 😉
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Perhaps one should spend more time on well written opinions that we disagree with. But usually, we don’t. Are we afraid to catch cooties?
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Hahaha! Sorry if my musings don’t meet the standard; these are throwaway snippets that come to me in the shower, at stoplights, or on my bike. But to answer your question, I LOVE cooties! My bed is slathered with ’em LOL!
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All speech is a practical asset.
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Depends on the timing. I have learned through my own experience that asking a question is a delicate art which, if done with astuteness, demonstrates that the questioner respects the other person’s time, intelligence, and thought processes. It may be heresy, but I have learned that there is indeed such a thing as a dumb question, and similarly, I believe there is such a thing as nonpractical speech. Especially in writing, where word choice and sentence flow should, (in my mind anyway) contribute to your argument or story.
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I’ve been waiting since September on some unfulfilled threats. Good thing I didn’t hold my breath.
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I’ve been waiting years for my friends to fulfill their promise of developing an app, writing a book, or “getting yoked” in their words. I would’ve died years ago had I held MY breath, LOL!
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You have done well, grasshopper. Thanks to you I just sent off two novels to the Palamedes folks.
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Awesome! I sincerely hope you crush it friend, and that you are able to write full-time and get optioned by Hollywood with the fruits of your work! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I remember some classes with papers which resembled your comment!!! It is so easy to use fancy phrases and fluff and not say a single thing worth mentioning.
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I like to say that people love the potentiality and novelty of “premise-land.” Things become much less fun once someone has to realize said potentiality and novelty, because it requires discipline and logistics, which are obviously boring. This forms a big chunk of my philosophies where I advocate mastering basic persistence and awareness related behaviors, so that one can apply them to creativity, finish projects, and present them to the public. I’m actually lazy and freewheeling by nature, it’s just that I also want to write and make stuff, and after all my lazy-man strategizing, I realized that the easiest and laziest way IS to apply all that boring stuff like discipline, attention to detail, etc.
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It works!!!! Keep up the easy lazy way, my sexy friend. :o)
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Hahaha! Sounds like you want me to laze on off what little clothes I wear! 😉
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“When I had to go, he was bringing to a close prestissimo the most amazing monologue that, up to that time, these ears had ever funneled into consciousness.”
H. L. Mencken on meeting James Huneker
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Yes. This.
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