^ 'Toastmasters International - Golden Gavel Recipients'.^ Chicago Tribune - NORTH SPORTS FINAL, C Edition - Kenan Heise.^ PR - Bob Proctor from The Secret shares His Insights on Learning, Creating Prosperity & The Law of Attraction - Allison Kugel - Ap.^ 'Mark Victor Hansen: Listen to Earle Nightingale and The Strangest Secret'.^ Think and Grow Rich, The Essence of the Immortal Book by Napoleon Hill, Narrated by Earl Nightingale, Success Motivation Institute, 1960.^ Lanka Newspaper – We Became What We Think About – Monday, 2 April 2007.'Drug and Alcohol Rehab: Diana Nightingale Conversation'. ^ 'Earl Nightingale's Greatest Discovery'.^ Chicago Sun Times - THE SAVAGE TRUTH | Economic fears are a big part of country's problems – Terry Savage – March 9, 2009.^ Chicago Tribune – CHICAGOLAND - Kenan Heise - Mar 29, 1989.^ The Nassau Guardian - Meteorological Myths – Editorial Colume – 30 June – 2003.The Belgian popular music band Felix Pallas used some quotations of The Strangest Secret in their song 'Song for Melody', which was part of their first EP 2S4T. ĭuring the mid-1980s, Nightingale received the Napoleon Hill Gold Medal for Literary Excellency for his first book, Earl Nightingale’s Greatest Discovery.ĭuring his lifetime, Nightingale wrote and recorded more than 7,000 radio programs, 250 audio programs as well as television programs and videos. In 1985, Nightingale was inducted into The National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the National Speakers Association Speaker Hall of Fame. In 1976, he won the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. Nightingale won a gold record for the LP record album The Strangest Secret. Nightingale died on March 25, 1989, in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications after heart surgery. It included his text, his illustrations, and incorporated space for a private journal. Just prior to his death during 1989, Nightingale created a new format for a book named The Winner’s Notebook. Nightingale's radio program, Our Changing World, became the most syndicated radio program ever, and was broadcast across the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Africa, the Bahamas, and 23 additional overseas countries, as well as the Armed Forces Network.Īfter his retirement, Nightingale and his wife, Diana, formed the company Keys Publishing. During 1987, Nightingale published his first book, Earl Nightingale’s Greatest Discovery. In 1987, Nightingale-Conant published another very successful audio book: Lead The Field. Also in 1960, he co-founded the Nightingale-Conant corporation with Lloyd Conant. It was titled, Think and Grow Rich: The Essence Of The Immortal Book By Napoleon Hill, Narrated by Earl Nightingale, and produced by Success Motivation Institute. During 1960, a condensed audio version of Think and Grow Rich was narrated by Nightingale. '' ĭuring 1956, he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold more than a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status. 'We become what we think about.' 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap. He realized that he had been reading the same truth over and over again, from the New Testament.to the works of Emerson. It came when he realized that the six words he read were the answer to the question he had been looking for! That, 'we become what we think about'. Quoting from the Earl Nightingale official website: 'When he was 29, Earl's enlightenment had come to him as a bolt out of the blue while reading, Think and Grow Rich. During the autumn of 1949, Nightingale was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Other than Pearl Harbor, it is unknown if Nightingale experienced combat.Īfter the war, Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which eventually resulted in work as a motivational speaker. He was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of fifteen surviving Marines aboard that day.

When Nightingale was seventeen years old he joined the United States Marine Corps.

She has continued working with Earl's commercial themes. ĭiana Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. After his father left, his mother relocated the family to a tent in nearby Tent City in Long Beach on the waterfront behind the Mariner Apartments. His father, Earl Nightingale IV, abandoned his mother in 1933. Nightingale was born in Los Angeles in March 1921.

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