"I already shot my wad on the Protestants!"

-- Gene Siskel

“I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.”
“In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.”
“We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.”
“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”
“The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?”

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