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“Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.”

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Diane Dreher is an author recognized for her contributions to the self-help and personal development genre. Born in 1946, she has authored several influential books that delve into the intricacies of human behavior and offer guidance for personal growth. more

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“Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.”

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“our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.”

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“Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.”

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“Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.”

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“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

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“Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.”

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“The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.”

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Book:Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

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“Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.”

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“our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.”

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