Needed: Thought + Action ?

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Needed: Thought + Action ?

According to Charles Rosen (1)

In music, over cerebrating

Interferes with creating.

or, approximately in his own words:

"Ornithology is for the birds

as musicology is for"... nerds, 

and merely studying how to get things  right

won't bring about a successful flight

as also was  shown by the Brothers Wright (2). 

The great physician Sir William Osler(3)

put a similar thought in another way:

practicing medicine without reference to a library

"is like sailing an uncharted sea"

but being too professorial

is not sailing at all.

So what relevance does this have for today?

Surely we  need  leaders who can think as well as bray

but also  act, when needed, brave and tough:

Thinking  perhaps  too much,

 may not  be enough

to  preserve a way of life as such (4). 

HzL

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(1) Charles Rosen - Wikiquote

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Charles Rosen. From Wikiquote. Jump to: .... To paraphrase a famous remark of Barnett Newman, musicology is for musicians what ornithology is for the birds.

(2)The Wright Brothers: Pioneers in Aviation | Smithsonian ...

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Secretary Langley was devastated when the Wright Brothers beat him with ... TheWright Brothers and the Smithsonian did not always have a good relationship.

3) William Osler - Wikiquote

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To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. "Books and Men" in  ...

(4)Hamlet - TheatreHistory.com

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A critical analysis of William Shakespeare's HAMLET, and a collection of ... And thus thenative hue of resolution; Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; ..... we connect her destiny with Hamlet we know that darkness is to overshadow her,  ...