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Everybody isn't everybody.
Act like a VIP and become a VIP
Victory is produced by and belongs to all.
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.
Champions behave like champions before they are champions
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.
There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.
I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
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.
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.)
I'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.
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.
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.
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.
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?).