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Blood Memory

by Greg Iles (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 25, 2024 10:49AM

“My job as a leader isn’t to prevent mistakes from happening; my job as a leader is to correct them as quickly as possible when they do happen. However, if nobody feels comfortable bringing me the bad news—it’s going to take me a lot longer to correct those mistakes.”
― Jennifer Aaker, Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life

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“listening never made any man dumber, but it’s made a lot of people smarter.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

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“It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.”
― Jim Butcher, Peace Talks

tags: consequences, politics, power, responsibility, side-effects, unexpected

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“The real you is not your initial reaction. The real you is your response that comes after your reaction. The real you is the one who can weave out of the grasp of the past and produce an authentic response that is based in the present.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

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“For the sickness that we are trying to combat is not racial in its origin. It definitely shows up in a racialized way because of how race has been codified into oppression and marginalization in this country for more than four hundred years. But the real sickness is an energy—an energy that, if we are not careful, we will allow to metastasize within our own marginalized groups. That energy commands that the only way for you to belong is for you to become me. It's narcissistic energy, rooted in colonialism, that suggests our way is the only way. It always leaves us with a zero-sum game of winners and losers.”
― Ben McBride, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging

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