A Quote by Marva Collins

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Marva Collins

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Leaders Readers Succeed Thinkers

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Marva Collins
American - Biographer
August 31, 1936 - June 24, 2015

Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

Cheryl Richardson

The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

Tariq Ramadan

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Anthony Burgess

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Harriet Martineau

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

Daniel H. Pink

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.

Simon Sinek

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Alan Lightman

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the lazy, easy traditional narrative - which is controlled by the publishing industry - roll all over the readers and dominate the market. I think our readers and cinemagoers have been trained to read and watch very mainstream stuff. It's like being given sleeping pills. It sends people to a non-reflective sleep state.

Xiaolu Guo

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Harry S. Truman

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Howard G. Hendricks

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Jon Gordon

We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

Colin Powell

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

Dean Spade

The world needs thinkers, leaders, and doers more than ever, so neglecting the minds of half the population means a lost opportunity to benefit from their ideas, contributions, and actions.