->''"It's the age-old question: Who's better? Wrestling/{{Shawn|Michaels}} or Wrestling/{{Bret|Hart}}? At some point it dawned on me, 'Oh my goodness, yeah, Bret was easily a better wrestler than I am. But I think I was a better performer.'"''
-->-- '''Wrestling/ShawnMichaels'''

->''"[[Creator/LaurenceOlivier He]] is the world's greatest actor who wants to become a movie star. [[Creator/MarilynMonroe You]] are the world's greatest movie star who wants to become an actor. And this movie isn't going to help either of you."''
-->-- ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''

->''"This may only be my theory... but speaking in broad terms, there are two types of manga artists who succeed in this world. One is the type of person who draws what they want to draw. To put it in rather negative terms they’re the ones who rely on natural instinct, or in positive terms they’re the "genius" type. The other type is the type of manga artist like you, Takagi, who creates a hit through calculation. [[DontThinkFeel And the one who has the chance of potential of creating a smash hit is by far the non-calculating person]]."''
->(He pauses as Mashiro and Takagi react in surprise)
->''"Okay, sorry, let me put that in a different way. It’s basically harder to calculate a smash hit. In other words, those who can create a smash hit through calculation have an advantage. They won’t end up as a one-hit wonder. And, if we editors could calculate hits like that, we’d get big promotions! Ha ha ha."''
-->-- '''Akira Hattori''', ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}''

->'''Cutter''': The trick was too good, it was too simple. The audience hardly had time to see it.
->'''Robert Angier''': He's a dreadful magician.
->'''Cutter''': No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman. He doesn't know how to dress it up, how to sell the trick.
-->-- ''Film/ThePrestige''

->''"I have hands, David, hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life, I wanted to play. But I do not have the gift, I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You've performed [[Music/FranzLiszt Liszt]], [[Music/SergeiRachmaninoff Rachmaninoff]], [[Music/FryderykChopin Chopin]], even if you never do so again, you've already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live, because the true gift is in your head, and in your heart, and in your soul.''"
-->-- '''Major Charles Winchester''', ''{{Series/MASH}}, Season 8 Episode 19 "Morale Victory"''

->'''Owain:''' Well, if you're going to be a hero, there's only one real option... Wait until your friends are on the brink of defeat, then show up and smite the enemy! There's nothing more heroic than a big comeback.
->'''Cynthia:''' That's terrible! I can't do that!
->'''Owain:''' Why not? A hero always shows up at the last minute. It's in the job description.
->'''Cynthia:''' No, it's not! A real hero is there the whole time, tirelessly defending her allies!
->'''Owain:''' Noooo, I'm pretty sure a hero has to show up and save everyone at the very end. ...Huh. Weird. We always agreed on this kind of stuff before.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''

-> '''Tagge:''' I look at the state of the Empire and ask myself "How many Super Star Destroyers could we have made with the resources we threw into Tarkin's Folly?" \\
'''Vader:''' Tarkin had vision. You have graphs. \\
'''Tagge:''' I have the graphs and the command. My plans may not be as glamorous or as grand as yours or the departed Tarkin, but they ''work''.
-->-- ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader''

->''"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."''
-->-- '''Pablo Picasso'''

->''"[Music/NeilYoung] pauses and looks out the window. 'At a certain point, trained, accomplished musicians'--which is to say, not him--'hit the ''wall''. They don't go there very often, they don't have the tools to go through the wall, because it's the ''end of notes''. It's the other side, where there's only tone, sound, ambience, landscape, earthquakes, pictures, fireworks, the sky opening, buildings falling, subways collapsing.... When you go through the wall, the music takes on that kind of atmosphere, and it doesn't translate the way other music translates. When you get to the other side, you can't go back. I don't know too many musicians who try to go through the wall.' He stops for a moment. [[BadassBoast 'I love to go through the wall,']] as if you ever doubted it for a moment."''
-->-- '''Steve Erickson''', ''[[http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000730mag-neilyoung.html Neil Young On a Good Day]]''

->''It would seem to me that Bastion and Adam represented two extremes: the inflexible planner and the reckless gambler.''
-->-- '''Jamie Lancaster''', ''Fanfic/StateOfTheMeta''

->''"[[VideoGame/QuakeI Quake]] was the last collaboration between [[Creator/IdSoftware id Software's]] two Johns, [[Creator/JohnRomero Romero]] and [[Creator/JohnCarmack Carmack]], before Romero went off to make VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} out of mousetraps and semen, and Carmack proceeded to craft VideoGame/QuakeII out of [[SoOkayItsAverage stale Weetabix and paste]]. Quake I finds the happy medium, and illustrates why they kinda needed each other. That [[ShockAndAwe lightning gun]] that murders you [[AwesomeButImpractical if you use it in water]] definitely smells of Romero, but at least there's [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon some imagination on display]]. The [[RealIsBrown color scheme]] and [[CutAndPasteEnvironments repetitive levels]] were probably scraped up from the Carmack tarmac, but the gameplay is [[BoringButPractical characteristically solid]]."''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9SazeaeK0 Zero Punctuation: Quake]]''

->'''Fujiwara:''' Even if the movements are clumsy, wouldn't you agree that pouring your heart and soul into expressing the intent and meaning of the dance is what's most important?\\
'''Kaguya:''' Vague concepts like "heart and soul" are unnecessary. Learning the proper choreography and executing those movements as effectively as possible is the most important.
-->-- ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''

->'''Alinua:''' I'm just saying, a runic circle for EVERY incantation seems very overcomplicated. Sometimes time is of the essence!
->'''Erin:''' And I'm telling YOU that safety is by DEFINITION not "overcomplicated"! A haywire healing cantrip can do horrible things to a person! What if you were trying to mend a broken bone and filled the fracture with stomach lining instead?
->'''Alinua:''' How could you possibly screw up a broken bone THAT badly? Bone already wants to grow more bone! Just feel it out and help it along a little!
->'''Erin:''' What do you MEAN "feel it out?"
-->--Erin and Alinua arguing over spellcasting methodology, ''Webcomic/Aurora2019''

->'''[[UsefulNotes/SteveJobs Jobs]]''': Everybody knows Windows bit off Apple!
->'''[[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Gates]]''': I tripled the profits on a PC.
->'''Jobs''' All the people with the power to create use an Apple!
->'''Gates''': And people with [[BoringYetPractical jobs use PC]].
->'''Jobs''': You know, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I bet they made this beat on an Apple]]!
->'''Gates''': Nope. Fruity Loops. PC.
->'''Jobs''': You'll never, ever catch a virus on an Apple!
->'''Gates''': Well you can still afford a doctor if you bought a PC.
->-- ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''
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