SUNRISE - July 1, 2011

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”. - Andy Warhol

SUNRISE - February 19, 2011

February 19, 2011 Sunrise 6:51 am

"In many fields in our life, we face situations where the errors can be corrected by some sort of retake. We can manage to sort out our mistakes as we may get another chance. But life is the only game where there is no second chance to correct our errors, our mistakes. Once it is over, there is nothing that can help. 

Time does not care about the winners and the losers. It does never care about what a person has achieved in his life and what he has lost. Time does not care about who succeeds in life and who fails to achieve his/her goals. Time does not entertain any kind of excuses neither it cares about fairness or equality. The only thing that matters is how we lived, how we fought, how we played the game. 

Every step needs to be taken at right moment. Time does never show partiality, it gives everyone equal chance to win, it offers opportunity but also demands a sense of urgency, urgency to wake up and act at the very moment. We should always keep in mind that time is money and no one can afford losing it. 

Time has given everyone equal chance to win, the proof of this can be read in history, there are different chapters in the history where many individuals have written there names with golden ink, because they were successful, because they did everything on the correct time. They never let an opportunity pass by. All this is to indicate only one thing and that is nothing but……. we all should take care to act on the right moment.

We should be constantly aware of the value of each and every moment of our lives - moments that seems so insignificant that there loss often goes unnoticed. Perhaps GOD knew about us, and he gave us more time. We still have all the time we need. We still have lots of chances, lots of opportunities – lots of days, months, and years to show what we can do.

For most of us, there will be a tomorrow, next week, a next month or perhaps a next year. But what we need to know is the value of that particular chance we have got, we need to develop a sense of urgency, unless we wake up, those brief windows of time will be sadly wasted away and we won’t have time even to cry!   We should keep in mind that there isn’t an endless supply of time!"

 - Nilesh Parekh

rlw

SUNRISE - February 18, 2011

February 18, 2011 Sunrise 6:52 am

Realize the value of time. Time in perspective.

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course!
Well, everyone has such a bank. It's name is time.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the records of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the tomorrow.
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.

And remember, time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
...unknown

rlw

SUNRISE - February 17, 2011

February 17, 2011 Sunrise 6:53 am

“The infinite is in the finite of every instant.”  - Zen Saying

 

   "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown

  Note to ponder:  Hearing can be apparently over-corrected like vision.  I had my hearing aids "toned down' today - more bass, less treble.  Every little movement of paper shuffling, silverware clinking, ripping off a sheet of paper towel, etc. was magnified.  At first it was merely interesting, like a magic show...but too much is just that - too much.  

My son and personal IT staff, Dustin has been saving me loads of frustrated TIME.  All the little, seemingly simple, IT tasks that I could probably have figured out "eventually" (if I didn't smash them first) were piling up because I was reluctant to invest the TIME to get them resolved, are now nearing completion.  Devices I was set to throw in the trash, because -since I couldn't get them to work- they must be broken - are magically working just fine now.

rlw

 "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."  - Benjamin Franklin

  

SUNRISE - February 16, 2011



February 16, 2011 Sunrise 6:55 am

 "Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure."   - C. C. Colton

"The difference between rising at five or seven o'clock in the
morning, for forty years, is supposing a man goes to bed at the
same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of
ten years to a man's life.-   Doddridge

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.-   Marcus Aurelius

rlw

SUNRISE - February 15, 2011

February 15, 2011 Sunrise 6:56 am

  " Man is enabled to find sense in this chaos of experience and discover the meaning and measure of this incomprehensive flux of perpetual 'flourishing and perishing' which we call Time." 

    Dr. K. Bhaskaran Nai r

 "How is it that an hour drinking wine with the one you love travel so much more quickly than an hour in the dental chair getting a root canal"  rlw

Measuring Time

*  with a calendar

*  with a clock

*  with a watch

*  the movement of life between sunrise and sunset

*  the 8 to 5 spent at work

*  the marks on the door frame measuring how fast your child grew up

*  how fast Monday rolls around again

*  how quickly it is time to fill your weekly pill box again

*  how quickly the weekend went away

*  the inequities of  time travel from birth to 30 vs 30 to 60

 "Ancient man has left us very little about the details of his timekeeping, but whatever we have found seems to indicate that in every culture, some people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time.  Ice-age hunters in Europe over 20,000 years ago scratched lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones, possibly counting the days between phases of the moon.  Five thousand years ago, Sumerians in the Tigris-Euphrates valley in today's Iraq had a calendar that divided the year into 30-day months, divided the day into 12 periods (each corresponding to 2 of our hours), and divided these periods into 30 parts (each like 4 of our minutes).  We have no written records of Stonehenge but its alignments show its purposes apparently included the determination of seasonal or celestial events such as solstices and may have included lunar eclipses."


Horology (from Greek: ὥρα, "hour, time" and Greek: λόγος, logos, "study, speech"; lit. the study of time) is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders and marine chronometers are all examples of instruments used to measure time. 

People interested in horology are called horologists. Go figure.
Horologist Bob.

rlw