Quotes from Ray Bennett

The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.

To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.

You must always work not just within, but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way, the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. —Pablo Picasso

If the faith of underachievement holds anything to be true, it's that by not striving to be better than someone else, you're free to better yourself.

It's also a time-honored, hardwired tradition for children to not want what their parents push on them.

Religion is too often the pretext for war, hatred, intolerance among different faiths, and competitive piety within faiths. But the problem isn't with faith, or even with difference in faith, within the churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. The problem is the overachievers in those institutions.