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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

Bill Walsh

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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Champion Country Game Player Winning
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
For me the starting point for everything – before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience – is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you’re dead in the water.
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Ethics Philosophy Water Work
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
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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Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
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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Interesting Kids Thinking
In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough.
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Confidence Desire Fierce Rough Translate
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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Creator Damn Knows
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Art More Science Use
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
You can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
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Belittle Getting Lesa More People

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