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Read to Lead - Opportunities for growth as a leader are all around you - Applying what you read to become a better leader.
Denver, CO
Joined October 2020
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while." - Malorie Blackman
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.” - B. F. Skinner
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
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"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” - Ezra Pound
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"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J. K. Rowling
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"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” - David Sedaris
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"There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
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"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work." - Khaled Hosseini
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"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry Truman
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"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” – Gary Paulsen
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"A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.” - Andre Dubus
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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” - Robertson Davies
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"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard
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