1. When You’re Losing, Everything Hurts
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2. Humility: The Spirit of Learning
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3. Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry, The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2008), 157.
4. Norman McGowan, My Years With Churchill (London: Souvenir Press, 1958).
5. Eccles. 7:14 (NASB).
6. Charlotte Foltz Jones, Mistakes That Worked (New York: Doubleday, 1991), introduction.
7. Ibid., 8–9.
8. Ibid., 51–53.
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12. Tim Hansel, Eating Problems for Breakfast (Waco, TX: Word Publishing, 1988) 33–34.
3. Reality: The Foundation of Learning
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2. Charlene Schiff as told to Sam Boykin, in “Home of the Brave,” Reader’s Digest, April 2009, 149.
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4. “Charlene Schiff: A Daughter’s Separation.”
5. “Survivor Volunteers: Charlene Schiff (Shulamit Perlmutter).”
6. “Ibid.
7. Boykin, “Home of the Brave.”
8. Jack Moline, “A Life Bearing Witness to the Holocaust,” Alexandria Gazette Packet, November 5, 2008, http://www.tisaraphoto.com/legends/Schiff.htm, accessed July 30, 2012.
9. Boykin, “Home of the Brave.”
10. Hal Urban, Life’s Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter (New York: Fireside, 2003), 12.
11. Source unknown.
12. Michael Tarm, “Astronauts, Flight Directors Hold Reunion to Mark 40th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Drama, Triumph,” Star Tribune, April 12, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=90707004, accessed April 5, 2013.
4. Responsibility: The First Step of Learning
1. Spongebob623, “Homeless Man w/Golden Radio Voice,” YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXS2MSPFwI.
2. Ted Williams with Bret Witter, A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation (New York: Gotham Books, 2012), 23.
3. Ibid., 37.
4. Ibid., 53.
5. Ibid., 55.
6. Ibid., 161.
7. Ibid., 251.
8. Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1993), 3.
9. A Golden Voice, 237.
10. Matthew 5:45.
11. Author unknown.
12. “ ‘Thank You for Smoking’ author Christopher Buckley Takes on Social Security Reform in ‘Boomsday,’ ” Greater Talent Network,” http://www.greatertalent.com/speaker-news/thank-you-for-smoking-author-christopher-buckley-takes-on-social-security-reform-in-boomsday/, accessed August 23, 2012.
13. Eric Plasker, “I Choose My Life,” in The 100 Year Lifestyle (Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2007), Kindle edition, location 4686–4711 of 4808.
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15. Alan Loy McGinnis, Confidence: How to Succeed at Being Yourself (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1987), 27.
16. Frances Cole Jones, The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World (New York: Ballantine Books, 2009), 30–31.
5. Improvement: The Focus of Learning
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4. Walter Cronkite, A Reporter’s Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996), 68.
5. Henry O. Dormann, comp., Letters from Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow’s Leaders from the World’s Most Influential People (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2009) 22–23.
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6. Hope: The Motivation of Learning
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2. “When Everything Material is Lost,” Pulpit Helps, http://www.pulpithelps.com/www/docs/243-317, accessed September 4, 2012.
3. Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (New York: Continuum, 2002), 206.
4. Bob Wosczyk, Who Says the Fat Lady Has to Sing? How to Overcome the Eight Fears That Make Us Quit on Our Lifelong Dreams (Tucson: Wheatmark, 2008), 1–2.
5. Jim Abbott and Tim Brown, Imperfect: An Improbable Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 2012), 55.
6. Ibid., 56.
7. Ibid., 58.
8. Ibid., 61.
9. Ibid., 66.
10. Ibid., 182.
11. Ibid., 185.
12. Ibid., 183.
13. “Jim Abbott Career Stats,” MLB.com, http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=110009, accessed September 10, 2012.
14. Abbott and Brown, Imperfect, 276.
7. Teachability: The Pathway of Learning
1. Mark Murphy, Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting Star Performers with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012), xi–xii.
2. Hal Urban, Life’s Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter (New York: Fireside, 2003), 42–43.
3. Ibid., 50.
4. Jeorald Pitts and Lil Tone, “Can You Identify What I Am?” Los Angeles Sentinel, December 16, 2010, http://www.lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3252:can-you-identify-what-i-am&catid=92&Itemid=182, accessed September 13, 2012.
5. Richard Wurmbrand, In God’s Underground, Kindle edition (Bartlesville, OK: Living Sacrifice Book Company, 1968), location 213 of 3720.
6. Ibid., location 102 of 3720.
8. Adversity: The Catalyst for Learning
1. Gilbert King, “The Unknown Story of the Black Cyclone, the Cycling Champion Who Broke the Color Barrier,” Past Imperfect (blog), Smithsonian, September 12, 2012, http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/09/the-unknown-story-of-the-black-cyclone-the-cycling-champion-who-broke-the-color-barrier/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120916-Weekender, accessed September 17, 2012.
2. Michael Kranish, “Major Taylor—The World’s Fastest Bicycle Racer,” Boston Globe Magazine, September 16, 2001, http://www.michaelkranish.com/Michael_Kranish/Major_Taylor.html, accessed September 18, 2012.
3. King, “The Unknown Story of the Black Cyclone.”
4. Kranish, “Major Taylor.”
5. King, “The Unknown Story of the Black Cyclone.”
6. Kranish, “Major Taylor.”
7. Ibid.
8. Robert Browning Hamilton, “Along the Road,” cited in Edith P. Hazen, ed., The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry, 10th edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 34.
9. Amy Wilkinson, “Entrepreneurial Nation,” USA Today, July 16, 2009, 9A.
10. James Casey, “Climb the Steep,” PoemHunter.com, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/climb-the-steep/, accessed September 25, 2012.
9. Problems: Opportunities for Learning
1. Source unknown.
2. Robert H. Schuller, Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), 73.
3. Understanding the Winds of Adversity, Supplementary Alumni Book, volume 7 (Oak Brook, IL: Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, 1981), quoted in Bill Scheidler, “Understanding Suffering and Affliction,” ChurchLeadershipResources.com, http://www.churchleadershipresources.com/DownloadLanding.aspx?resourceId=2662&openOrSave=Save, accessed September 28, 2012.
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10. Bad Experiences: The Perspective for Learning
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2. Source unknown.
3. Pat Forde, “U.S. Olympic Swim Trials are Exhilarating for Top Two Finishers, Excruciating If You End Up Third,” Yahoo! Sports, June 24, 2012, http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--u-s--olympic-swim-trials-excruciating-if-you-finish-third.html, accessed October 1, 2012.
11. Change: The Price of Learning
1. Christopher Bonanos, Instant: The Story of Polaroid (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), 31.
2. Ibid., 32.
3. Ibid., 32, 34.
4. Ibid., 34.
5. Ibid., 44.
6. Ibid., 7.
7. Ibid., 135.
8. Ibid., 145.
9. Lance Secretan, “Unlearn and Then Dream,” Personal Excellence, 11, http://www.calaministries.org/PE_1209_ap.pdf, accessed October 4, 2012 (page is no longer available).
12. Maturity: The Value of Learning
1. Author unknown.
2. Urban, Life’s Greatest Lessons, 62.
3. Arthur C. Brooks, “Obama’s Budget Flunks the Marshmallow Test,” Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204880404577229220571408412.html, accessed October 8, 2012.
13. Winning Isn’t Everything, But Learning Is
1. Dave Ramsey interview, Success, September–October 2006, 40.
2. Urban, Life’s Greatest Lessons, 156.