Aleodor

“Don’t believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or up and down. At your lowest and at your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“But the truth is, true leadership requires understanding those you lead, making the best choices for them, and most of all, convincing them when they don’t realize what’s best for them. Leadership is about moments like this, when the people you’re charged with protecting have doubts, when the odds are against you.”
― A.G. Riddle, Winter World

“The Dichotomy of Leadership A good leader must be: • confident but not cocky; • courageous but not foolhardy; • competitive but a gracious loser; • attentive to details but not obsessed by them; • strong but have endurance; • a leader and follower; • humble not passive; • aggressive not overbearing; • quiet not silent; • calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions; • close with the troops but not so close that one becomes more important than another or more important than the good of the team; not so close that they forget who is in charge.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“But the thing that’s truly different about the two of them is that when our life hit a fork in the road, Olivia ran away—whereas Emma grabbed my hand.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Lost Colony