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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#reading #leadership

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. ↗

— David Baldacci

#knowledge #understanding #life

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#reading #leadership

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#leadership-characteristics #leadership-development #leading-vs-following #leadership

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ↗

— Malcolm X

#reading #life

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dominant #dominant-gift #dominate #dominion #food-for-thought

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#i #life #people #people say #prefer

Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. ↗

— John Green

#library #reading #life

To perceive is to suffer. ↗

— Aristotle

#life #suffer #understanding #life

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life