"I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it."

-- Joshua Waitzkin

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“I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.”

Source : "The Showrunner Transcript: Justified’s Graham Yost on the Full House Writers’ Room and Learning to Collaborate". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.
“A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.”
“Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.”
“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”

Source : "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.
“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
“To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?”
“Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.”
“There are no office hours for champions.”

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