إن لم يساير الإنسانُ رفاقَه، فلعلّه يسمع قرعَ طبلٍ مختلف. فليخطُ على الإيقاع الذي يسمعه، مهما كان إيقاعاً بطيئاً أو بعيداً.

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”Henry David Thoreau — marches to the tune of a different drummer (1854)