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Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't by L. David Marquet

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They agreed never to wait to be told what to do. Instead, they would provide their intentions to me, how they were going to achieve my intent. This shift was reflected in a simple change of language, replacing “request permission to” with ...more

Ahmed’s Quotes

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
― Hazel Rochman

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“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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