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Everybody isn't everybody.

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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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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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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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Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.
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The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).
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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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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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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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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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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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Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.
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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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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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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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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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The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
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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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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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