SECTION 1: THE 20,000-DAY MIND-SET
1. Arthur Brisbane, Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, repr. 1999), 40.
1. 20,000 DAYS AND COUNTING
1. Golda Meir, quoted in Oriana Fallaci, “Golda Talks to Oriana Fallaci,” Ms. Magazine, April 1973, 103.
2. 5/5/55
1. Ted Engstrom and R. Alex Mackenzie, Managing Your Time: Practical Guidelines on the Effective Use of Time (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1967), 129.
3. THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF WILLIAM BORDEN
1. Howard Culbertson summarizes Borden’s story in “No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets,” http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/regret.htm. The quote is taken from an anecdote published in Daily Bread, December 31, 1988; available at http://sermonillustrations.com/a-z/r/regret.htm.
2. Mrs. Howard Taylor (Mary Taylor), Borden of Yale ’09 (Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, repr. 1951), 143.
3. Ibid., ix.
4. Daily Bread, December 31, 1988; available at http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/r/regret.htm.
4. LIVING EACH DAY AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST
1. “Dean in His Own Words,” Cinema’s Most Enduring Rebel: Celebrating James Dean’s 50th Anniversary (New York: Variety Custom Publishing, 2005), 10.
2. Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World (Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers, 1968).
3. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (New York: Fireside, repr. 2003), 113–14.
5. IF WE CAN LEARN HOW TO DIE, WE’LL KNOW HOW TO LIVE
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, new and rev. ed. (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1883), 168.
2. Philip Gould, “When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone,” YouTube video, posted by WhenIDieFilm, April 18, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2eUw0CUuMc.
3. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (New York: Vintage, repr. 1998), 13.
6. THE STATE OF INTENSITY
1. Charles Dickens, quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, comp. Rev. James Wood (New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1899), 4.
7. EAT DESSERT FIRST
1. Austin Dobson, “The Paradox of Time,” lines 1–2, in Proverbs in Porcelain, and Other Verses, 2nd ed. (London: C. Kegan Paul and Company, 1878), 125.
SECTION 2: BEATING THE CLOCK
1. Charles Darwin, letter to Susan Darwin, August 1836, quoted in Selected Letters on Evolution and Origin of Species, ed. Francis Darwin (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., repr. 1958), 145.
1. George Savile, quoted in H. C. Foxcroft, The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c, vol 2. (New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1898), 527.
9. YOU ONLY HAVE TWO CHOICES
1. William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790), in Selected Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 76.
2. “There Is No Try,” Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner (1980; Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004), DVD.
10. THE REAL CHALLENGE
1. Henry David Thoreau, April 24, 1859, in The Journal 1837–1861 (New York: New York Review of Books, 2009), 563.
11. FOCUSING YOUR MORNING VISION
1. Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in William Drysdale, Proverbs from the Plymouth Pulpit, Selected from the Writings and Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887), 7.
12. DOING WHAT YOU KNOW
1. Horace, Odes 3.29.29, in The Odes of Horace: Bilingual Edition, trans. David Ferry (New York: Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), 251.
2. Herb Kelleher, quoted in Kevin and Jackie Freiberg, Nuts!: Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), 86.
13. HOW TO CONQUER REJECTION FOREVER
1. Hugh Blair, “On the Importance of Order in Conduct,” Sermons, vol. 2 (London: printed by A. Strahan, repr. 1802), 9.
1. Charles Buxton, Notes of Thought, 2nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1883), 158.
SECTION 3: TODAY IS DAY ONE
1. Leonardo da Vinci, quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, comp. and ed. Larry Chang (Washington, DC: Gnosophia Publishers, 2006), 706.
15. THREE STEPS TO CATAPULT YOUR LIFE
1. Norman Douglas, An Almanac (London: Secker & Warburg, 1945), n.p.
16. SEVEN QUESTIONS TO SEIZE THE ESSENCE OF TODAY
1. John-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, repr. 2007), 14.
17. TEN THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW
1. Charles de Montesquieu, quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, comp. by Rev. James Wood (London, New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1899; Bartleby.com, 2012), www.bartleby.com/345/85.html#21026.
18. ONE FINAL NOTE: MY DESIRE FOR YOU
1. Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life, part 1 (New York: Macmillan and Company, repr. 1893), 108.
2. Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World (Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers, 1968), 53.
ONE FINAL LIFE QUOTE . . .
1. Max Lerner, “Fifty,” New York Post, December 18, 1952.