Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
BILL WALSHEverybody’s got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it’s completely crazy is completely crazy.
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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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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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My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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Strength of will – is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won’t go away, who won’t stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all.
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Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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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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We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, ‘Do you know how to tell if you’re doing the job?’ As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: ‘If you’re up at 3 A.M.
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Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
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There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it’s taking on those you lead.
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I’ve observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure-and their ability to overcome it.
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90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
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Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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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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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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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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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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“Extra effort,” in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns.
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As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
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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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