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You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Bill Walsh

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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Country Editors Game Player Sports Tools
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
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Communication Fighting Sports
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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Books Magazines Reality Sports
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.
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Competitiveness Ego Psychologists Spare Strong
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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Away Ego People Strong Survival
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
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Country Doe Game Knowing Player
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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Motivational Player Sports
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
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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Awareness Lead Part Talking
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Art More Science Use
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
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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Differences Editing Writing
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

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