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Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

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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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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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To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
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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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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
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There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.
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Victory is produced by and belongs to all.
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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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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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Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
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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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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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Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
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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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Act like a VIP and become a VIP
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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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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
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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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Everybody isn't everybody.
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