IJ 168 - "Potential may be worse than none, Jim."
173 - "Talent is sort of a dark gift, talent is its own expectation."
Dylan Moran on potential:
Heroism/Success/Boredom
IJ 141- "He is a bureaucrat, and his heroism is bureaucratic, with a genius for navigating cluttered fields."
IJ 172-176 - TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY
DFW's Pale King - “True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”
David Brooks NY Times Op-Ed, In Praise of Dullness (5/09):
"The traits that correlated most powerfully with success were attention to detail, persistence, efficiency, analytic thoroughness and the ability to work long hours."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/opinion/19brooks.html?_r=07
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