Bill Walsh Quotes
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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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There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. 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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As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
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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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Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.
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Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
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Champions behave like champions before they are champions
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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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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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One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.
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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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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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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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Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
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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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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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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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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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Everybody isn't everybody.
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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. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.
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The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.
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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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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.
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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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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of these things.)
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