Marcia Whicker quotes
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“Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.”
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“typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.”
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“Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.”
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“Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.”
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“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”
-- Marcia Whicker
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“I must follow them. I am their leader.”
Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”