Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom LandryRead
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Interpretation
Defeats are opportunities for growth and learning.
This quote by Tom Landry emphasizes that even in setbacks and failures, there are valuable lessons and constructive outcomes to be gained. It encourages a positive perspective on defeat, suggesting that it is a necessary part of the journey toward success and personal development.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team after a tough loss.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you.
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'
I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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