Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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Bill Walsh on Doing Your Job

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Life Advice from Bill Walsh

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Bill Walsh on Doing Your Job

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Bill Walsh

"When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win." - Bill Walsh from The Score Takes Care of Itself

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Champions behave like champions before they're champions. They have a winning standard of preference before they're winners." - Bill Walsh

"People with self-confidence are honest about their own motivations, actions, and results. They recognize when the voice in their head might be ignoring reality. They also listen to the feedback the world gives them, instead of shopping around for other opinions." - Shane Parrish

"For the true man wants two things; danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"When you're lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last." - Ryan Holiday

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Physics does not care about hurt feelings. It cares about whether you got the rocket right." - Elon Musk

"If we are all thinking alike then no one is thinking." - Bill Walsh

"All bookshops are full of stories, and stories want to be heard." - Jen Campbell

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"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." - Bill Walsh

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you must connect them looking backwards." - Steve Jobs

"You don't work n the NFL. You live in the NFL." - Al Davis

"Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned." - Shane Parrish

Life Advice from Bill Walsh

Via Mike Lombardi. I also highly recommend the book The Score Takes Care if Itself by Bill Walsh

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Exotic car companies don't run commercials on TV because their customers aren't sitting around watching TV. Let that sink in." - Richard Cooper

"Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants." - Bill Walsh

"It's common for the peanut gallery to think they could have done a better job than the experts. The unusual thing about Afghanistan is that in this case they're probably right." - Paul Graham

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance which are what I'd consider the bedrock foundation of all of his success.

1. Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
2. Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
3. Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
4. Be fair.
5. Demonstrate Character.
6. Honor the direct connection between details and improvement; relentlessly seek the latter.
7. Relentlessly seek self improvement 
8. Show self -control, especially under pressure.
9. Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
10. Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
11. Take pride in my effort as an entity separate from the result of that effort.
12. Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
13. Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
14. Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive
15. Seek poise in myself and those that I lead
16. Put the team's welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
17. Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high
18. Make sacrifice and commitment the organization's trademark
19. The leader must exhibit the principles, code of conduct and behavior that he's asking others to emulate.

This Standard of Performance could easily be applied to any organization or even as a personal code of conduct.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"A glory that costs everything and means nothing." - Steve Erickson

"Exotic car companies don't run commercials on TV because their customers aren't sitting around watching TV. Let that sink in." - Richard Cooper

"Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants." - Bill Walsh

"It's common for the peanut gallery to think they could have done a better job than the experts. The unusual thing about Afghanistan is that in this case they're probably right." - Paul Graham

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson

"Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark." - Swami Vivekananda

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." - Albert Einstein

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- 13 reasons why anyone can benefit from a daily writing habit

-  Going under the radar - Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou still fighting extradition to the US from Canada.

- Heh Heh

- Bill Walsh and the art of elimination

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance which are what I'd consider the bedrock foundation of all of his success.

1. Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
2. Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
3. Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
4. Be fair.
5. Demonstrate Character.
6. Honor the direct connection between details and improvement; relentlessly seek the latter.
7. Relentlessly seek self improvement 
8. Show self -control, especially under pressure.
9. Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
10. Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
11. Take pride in my effort as an entity separate from the result of that effort.
12. Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
13. Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
14. Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive
15. Seek poise in myself and those that I lead
16. Put the team's welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
17. Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high
18. Make sacrifice and commitment the organization's trademark
19. The leader must exhibit the principles, code of conduct and behavior that he's asking others to emulate.

This Standard of Performance could easily be applied to any organization or even as a personal code of conduct.

Bill Walsh

"When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win." - Bill Walsh from The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh - The Score Will Take Care of Itself

"However, a resolute and resourceful leader understands that there are a multitude of means to increase the probability of success. And that's what it all comes down to, namely, intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing in a competitive environment. When you do that, the score will take care of itself." - Bill Walsh

Walsh also put it another way, "Most big things are simple in the specific, much less so in the general." Take care of the little things and the big things start to take care of themselves.

Bill Walsh may have been more detailed oriented than even Bill Belichick.

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance

Bill Walsh's Standard of Performance which are what I'd consider the bedrock foundation of all of his success.

1. Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
2. Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
3. Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
4. Be fair.
5. Demonstrate Character.
6. Honor the direct connection between details and improvement; relentlessly seek the latter.
7. Relentlessly seek self improvement 
8. Show self -control, especially under pressure.
9. Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
10. Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
11. Take pride in my effort as an entity separate from the result of that effort.
12. Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
13. Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
14. Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive
15. Seek poise in myself and those that I lead
16. Put the team's welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
17. Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high
18. Make sacrifice and commitment the organization's trademark
19. The leader must exhibit the principles, code of conduct and behavior that he's asking others to emulate.

This Standard of Performance could easily be applied to any organization or even as a personal code of conduct.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The question I'm curious about but nobody seems to bothered to ask is "Has Elijah Cummings' house been broken into before?" And if so - how many times before? The Congressman certainly acted like someone who was prepared by prior experience... I'm an awful person for laughing at this... "Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants." - Bill Walsh... Clemson may have the top ranked team in college football but according to Phil Steele the Tigers don't have a special teams unit ranked in the top 50. Wonder if that could come back and bite them in a close game (like say against Alabama)... Four Dimensional Symmetry would be a great name for a blog... I think Lesley Gore's You Don't Own Me would be a good candidate for a cover re-make BY A MAN. Would put a twist on the classic song...