Life is short enough without imposing corporate metrics onto your friends. - Hugh McLeod
Source: http://www.gapingvoid.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=4389
And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave
- Jimmy Cliff
Source: http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/harder-they-come.htm
"Creative geniuses stumble; they trip; they make horrible mistakes. Their highest and most acclaimed successes are constructed on the low rubble of humiliating failures." - Dean Keith Simonton
Source: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2007/11/when_genius_bombs.html
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor. - W.H. Auden
Source: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2007/11/when_genius_bombs.html