Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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More Bill Walsh Quotes
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Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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If you don’t have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn’t hired to do anything but win.
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I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.
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Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
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Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.
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I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)
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I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that’s the critical factor.
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
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We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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