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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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Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
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Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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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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Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.
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People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... 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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Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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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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Victory is produced by and belongs to all.
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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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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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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 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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Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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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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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.
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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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We all know gifs are pronounced jifs, right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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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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