Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
BILL WALSHInvest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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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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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everybody’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.
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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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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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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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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 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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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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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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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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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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