As the author Anaïs Nin said, ‘We see things not as they are, but as we are. - Dave Trott

If you avoid the rejection, you avoid the opportunity.

I also like what Voltaire said about the English. ‘The English are like their own beer: the dregs are at the bottom, the top is nothing but froth, but the middle is quite excellent.

Enemy spies reported back to Germany that the reason they were losing so many bombers was the deadly ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham. And for a long while the Luftwaffe bought that story. They lost a lot of bombers to radar before they discovered the truth. Because a simple lie is often more powerful than a complicated truth.