Jack Canfield (1944) American writer
The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Confidence and Certainty
Jack Canfield (1944) American writer
The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Confidence and Certainty
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Page 232 <br class="br">Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Time Management (2007)
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
The God Abandons Antony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=12&cat=1 (1911).<br>Variant translations:<br>Like one who’s long prepared, like someone brave,<br>as befits a man who’s been blessed with a city like this,<br>go without faltering toward the window<br>and listen with deep emotion, but not<br>with the entreaties and the whining of a coward,<br>to the sounds — a final entertainment —<br>to the exquisite instruments of that initiate crew,<br>and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria, whom you are losing.<br>As translated by Daniel Mendelsohn (2009).<br>Don't mourn your luck that's failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don't mourn them uselessly:<br>as one long prepared, and full of courage,<br>say goodbye to her, to Alexandria who is leaving.<br> Unknown translator http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_20.htm <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.<br>As one long prepared, and graced with courage,<br>say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.<br>Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say<br>it was a dream, your ears deceived you:<br>don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.
Arlen Specter (1930–2012) American politician; former United States Senator from Pennsylvania
In a hearing on Congress's War Powers; reported in " Senate Republicans divided in dissent on Iraq http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16877327/", NBC News (January 30, 2007)/
Timothy Geithner (1961) American central banker and politician
House Financial Services Committee, March 24, 2009 http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/geithners-arrogance-knows-no-bounds.html http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hr03240923.shtml