"Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime."

“I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.”

“It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.”

“I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.”

“Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.”

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”

Source : William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”

“It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

“The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.”