If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.