It’s like the saying among airline pilots
that the best flying team has three components:
a pilot, a computer and a dog.
The computer is there to fly the plane,
the pilot is there to feed the dog.
And the dog is there to bite the human
if it tries to touch the computer.
Hannah Fry, Hello World
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker, interview, Bill Moyers A World of Ideas
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads And Savoy Songs
I am more than dust and ashes:
I am my best part,
I am my soul.
John Donne, Expostulation I
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel
who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
We don't need any more heroes;
we just need someone to take out the recycling.
Banksy, Banksy: wall and piece
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?
Alfred Hitchcock, Newsweek magazine