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The heart of success : conversations with notable achievers / by Dan G. Tripps ; foreword by Walter Cronkite ; afterword by John Wooden.
LIBRA - Rare BJ1611.2 .T75 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tripps, Dan G., author.
- Wooden, John, 1910-2010, author of afterword.
- Cronkite, Walter, author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Success.
- Penn Provenance:
- DePriest, James 1936-2013 (donor) (Libra Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : BainBridgeBooks, 2001.
- Summary:
- The book contains a collection of conversations with some 40 prominent people in business, science, education, government, sports, and the arts who discuss the essence of success, enabling the reader to understand the personal side of achievement.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Walter Cronkite
- Chapter 1. The Lure of Success
- Chapter 2. It Takes Absolute Success / Mike Eruzione, Chaim Potok, Karen Thorndike, and Bill Walsh
- Chapter 3. It Starts With Discipline / Hilary Hahn, Mills Lane, John Naber, and Sandra Day O'Connor
- Chapter 4. It's Intuitive, Intuitive, Intuitive / Leon Lederman, Mark McCormack, Mark Morris, and Belding Scribner
- Chapter 5. You Have to be Prepared to Work Very Hard / Sparky Anderson, Harry W. Brooks, Paul Ehrlich, and Edgar Martinez
- Chapter 6. You Can't Let Anything Stop You / James DePreist, Vladimir Feltsman, Kathy Johnson Clarke, and Dawn Riley
- Chapter 7. It's Ultimately About Perseverance / Mark Allen, Craig Breedlove, Ken Burns, and Bob Dole
- Chapter 8. Risk is an Essential Constituent / Paul Brainerd, Tom Hornbein, Don Lanphere, and Roger McGuinn
- Chapter 9. It's Leading People Without Leading Them by the Nose / Red Auerbach, Daniel J. Edelman, Bill McCartney, Hugh Wolff
- Chapter 10. You Have to Face Your Own Terror and Pain / Rebekkah Armstrong, Lynn Harrell, Diana Nyad, and Pam Shriver
- Chapter 11. It's Using Your Life to Make a Difference / Margaret Allen, Jaime Escalante, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, and Frederica von Stade
- Chapter 12. The Heart of Success
- Afterword / John Wooden.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy from the papers of James DePriest. Chapter 6 contains interview with him.
- ISBN:
- 1891696122
- 9781891696121
- OCLC:
- 44413999
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