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Chinua Achebe has 164 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You're gonna have to serve somebody.
— Bob Dylan
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
— Leonard Bernstein
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From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
— Gary Hamel
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True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from…
— James D. Robinson III
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Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level.
— David A. Heenan
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The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
— David A. Heenan
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Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.
— David A. Heenan
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No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are…
— Mel Lawrenz
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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
— Warren G. Bennis
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