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Learning: steps to becoming a passionate lifelong learner is Russell’s second book. In it, he explains eight specific steps that will teach you how to become a passionate lifelong learner.
Learning: steps to becoming a passionate lifelong learner
“Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.” – Harry Truman
About Harry S. Truman: Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term.
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“I can’t imagine I could become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.” – Oprah Winfrey
About Oprah Winfrey: Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American television host, actor, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world’s only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain
About Mark Twain: Mark Twain was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that has been called “the Great American Novel”, and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain was very popular, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned praise from critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the “greatest American humorist of his age” and William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature”.
“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business.”
— Mark Sanbor, Bestselling Author
About Mark Sanborn: Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted authority on leadership, team building, customer service and change.
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“All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Henry Wadsworth was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s and a world- famous personality by the time of his death in 1882.
He was a traveler, a linguist, and a romantic who identified with the great traditions of European literature and thought. At the same time, he was rooted in American life and history, which charged his imagination with untried themes and made him ambitious for success.
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.” – Wolfram Von Eschenbach
About Wolfram von Eschenbac: Wolfram von Eschenbac was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.
Wolfram is best known today for his Parzival, sometimes regarded as the greatest of all German epics from that time. Based on Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval, le Conte du Graal, it is the first extant work in German to have as its subject the Holy Grail. In the poem, Wolfram expresses disdain for Chrétien’s (unfinished) version of the tale, and states that his source was a poet from Provence called Kyot.
“Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. “—Jim Collins
About Jim Collins: James C. “Jim” Collins, III (born 1958, Boulder, Colorado) is an American business consultant, author, and lecturer on the subject of company sustainability and growth. Jim Collins frequently contributes to Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune and other magazines, journals, etc. He is also the author of several books: How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, and Good to Great.
“Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the world.”– John C. Maxwell
About John C. Maxwell: (born 1947) is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor who has written more than 50 books, primarily focusing on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow. His books have sold more than thirteen million copies, with several on the New York Times Best Seller List and translations in over fifty languages. In 2003, he was honored by the State of Indiana for his lifelong mission in helping individuals develop as leaders, for his prolific authorship, and for the founding of EQUIP
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”– George Eliot
About George Eliot: Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.