You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.
Tony La RussaRead
You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.
Interpretation
Accepting past mistakes is crucial for personal growth and moving forward.
This quote speaks to the importance of recognizing one's mistakes in order to learn from them and make amends where possible. It encourages a proactive approach to personal development, emphasizing that once we acknowledge our faults, we can turn our focus towards improvement and a brighter future.
In practice
Used during a team-building workshop to emphasize accountability.
You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.
If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.
Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.
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Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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