"It's important to live your life by a motto. I chose to live my life by the motto "My enemy's enemy is my friend." Unfortunately, as it turns out, my enemy is his own worst enemy. So I have to invite him to barbecues."
Mine would def be "what doesn't kill ya, makes you stronger'
or 'he who dares' Rodney.... :-)
"The nightmares invading the sleep of Bayern fans involve four horsemen of the Champions League Apocalypse riding towards them. As the faces come into focus, they will recognise Frank Lampard, Cole, Petr Cech and Drogba. All were immense..."
Not one to live by, but nonetheless one of my favourite quotations.
"We are taught that life is like a racetrack: that merit will find its own reward. This is the central way our system legitimates itself and motivates people to compete. But what a strange racetrack! In reality some people start half-way along the track, while others are forced to run with a millstone around their necks, while others are not even allowed on to the racetrack at all. The values of an equal and meritocratic society which capitalism inculcates into people are constantly at loggerheads with the actual material inequalities in the world."
John Lea and Jock Young, What is to be done about Law and Order?, 1984
The category of the prosumer commodity does not signify a democratization of the media towards participatory systems, but the total commodification of human creativity