Now Is It...
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| Mozart: the wonder kid |
At age five, he wrote an advanced
concerto for the harpsichord. Before
he was ten, he had published several
violin sonatas and was playing the
best of Handle and Bach from
memory. Soon after his twelfth
birthday, he composed and
conducted his first opera. He was
awarded an honorary appointment as
concert–master with the Salzburg
Symphony Orchestra and within a few
years, was hailed as the pride of
Salzburg.
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| W. A. Mozart |
When he died at the age of thirty-five,
he had written forty- eight
symphonies, forty-seven arias, duets,
and quartets with orchestral
accompaniment, and more than a
dozen operas. Johannes
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus
Theophilus Mozart is credited with
some 600 original compositions in all!
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| Fritz Kreisler: Do it! |
Some of us still want to live as if we
have all the time in the world. We
wish to do certain things, but the
problem is that it will forever remain
a wish. A woman rushed up to
violinist Fritz Kreisler after a concert
and gushed, “Oh, I would give my life
to play as you do!” He answered
soberly, “That’s exactly what I did.”
Fritz Kreisler could be that good
because he committed everything he
has to his passion.
If people would spend as much time
taking action as they do thinking
about how they can avoid taking
action, they’d be twice as productive
in half the time.
Don’t let age keep
you from taking action. Victor Hugo
wrote his first tragedy at age 15. John
de Medecci was 15 when he became a
cardinal! Raphael painted his
masterpieces before he died at age
37. Tennyson wrote his first volume of
poetry at age 18. Pascal wrote his
great works between the ages of 16
and his death at 37.
Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the
Declaration of Independence. Newton
formulated the law of gravitation at
age 24, and Westinghouse invented
the air brake at age 23. Dickens was 24
when he wrote Pickwick and 25 when
he wrote Oliver Twist. Joan of Arc did
her work and was burned at the stake
at 19. Romulus founded Rome at 20.
Calvin joined the Reformation at age
21 and wrote his famous Institutes at
age 27. Alexander the Great had
conquered his world by the time he
was 23.
Age had nothing to do with the
genius of these great people. They
merely took full responsibility of their
God-given gifts and wasted no time
as they maximized every opportunity
to its fullest potential. Even at old
age, men still take action. Colonel
Sanders opened his fast food joint at
the age of 56 and still became a multi-
millionaire. The time is now.
Life is short, and the things we want
to do must be done without delay.
The average lifetime is approximately
3 score and 10 (70 years), so says the
Holy book. That’s a little less than 25,
6oo days.
It will take some time to grow up, so
by the time you are 20, you will have
about 18, 250 days remaining. When
you are 30, there are 14,600 days left
to accomplish your goals. At 40, the
balance has decreased to about
11,000 days. By 50, you are down to
7,300. And at 60, only 3,650 are left. I’m
not ignoring the fact that many
people live well beyond 70, or that
much can be accomplished after that
age, but NOW is it.
Shalom!
Written by Uju Onyechere.Your views are most welcome...
