Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need … - Eric Burns

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I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Eric Burns

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Discipline, Drive, Execution, Greatness, Inspiration, Talent

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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

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The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Destinies, Destiny, Heart, Office, War

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

Home, Irrelevance, Planes, Reader, Technology

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Book, Exploit, Hoe, Man, Men

It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.

Create, Enough, Magic, Price, Writing

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