I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
History is more or less bunk.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.