The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a
sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader.
Stanley McChrystal
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. Peter F. Drucker
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy –
leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders. Stephen
R. Covey
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking
charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated
person. Warren Bennis
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s
somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always
necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and
school. Oprah Winfrey
It’s not the absence of leadership potential that
inhibits the development of more leaders; it’s the persistence of the
myth that leadership can’t be learned. This haunting myth is a far more
powerful deterrent to leadership development than is the nature of the
person or the basics of the leadership process. James Kouzes and Barry
Posner
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. Marcus Aurelius
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their
lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren
Bennis
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be
your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from
everyone else. Sara Blakely
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a
world that no longer exists. Warren Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be
content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of
standing out. Warren Bennis
Being humble doesn’t mean that you lack self-confidence,
or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does
mean recognizing that you don’t know everything – and that you’re
willing to learn from others. Justin Bariso
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that
intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share
your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. Wendy Kopp
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison
There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul — books. Emily Dickinson
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. Ernest Gaines
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time – or the tools – to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
I really think that reading is just as important as
writing when you’re trying to be a writer because it’s the only
apprenticeship we have, it’s the only way of learning how to write a
story. John Green
Reading is important because, if you can read, you can
learn anything about everything and everything about anything. Tomie
dePaola
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks
on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a
story. Ursula K. Le Guin
You should write because you love the shape of stories
and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing
comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to
your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick
up a work of fiction.
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good
and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then
see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very
pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading,
in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one
book. Samuel Johnson
When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See
