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When Leonardo da Vinci was painting the scene of Jesus' last supper, on a dining room wall in a certain monastery, he often stood for hours before that wall, pondering his next move. Someone complained to him he wasn't working. Leonardo answered, "When I pause the longest, I make the most telling strokes with my brush." The word pause comes from the Greek verb "pauein," meaning to stop. A pause is a short period of inaction, a temporary stop. Someone has said, in music, "pauses are music in the making." There is a momentary rest leading to the production of music more lovely than before.