Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
BILL WALSHI’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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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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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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Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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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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As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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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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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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If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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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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Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition.
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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 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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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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