Glenn L Carle
You’re going to waterboard this guy if you have to. Do whatever it takes. This high-value detainee is not only a senior agent of al-Qa’ida but is most likely a guy that could lead us to Osama Bin Laden. I don’t care what your beliefs are, lives are at stake. Just get him to talk know matter what – understood!
Scott Cowen
Dr. Scott Cowen, is Tulane University’s President Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor at the Freeman School of Business. He was named by Time magazine as one of the nation’s Top 10 Best College Presidents.
Helene Neville
Take Helene Neville, a grandmother, survivor of multiple bouts of potentially deadly cancer, turned hard-core elite marathoner. Not just any kind of runner. She is one of the first to have run the total perimeter of the United States, followed by all the states within the lower 48 – at 58 years old.
John Sculley
Barbara, she recalled him saying, when I heard we were bringing in a woman as an officer, I’ve got to tell you, I was really upset. I had no idea what I was going to be facing. But I have to tell you, you are really smart, and you’re feminine, too. Lopez weighed his words. Clumsy though they were, the man was trying to pay her a compliment. She was being welcomed into the fold. She decided to go with it, heeding her CEO’s advice about listening and absorbing the culture rather than pouncing with a new strategy, and soon she found the approach working.
Shin Dong Hyuk
Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean prisoner, raised in Camp 14 for 24 years from birth, is one of the very few who escaped from horrific conditions deep in the backcountry of this primitive, hostile communist state.
Anas Alammar
From an early age, Anas had to continually rely on his street smarts to put food in his stomach and maneuver through the world. The town often stared at his small family with beady eyes referring to his 3 older brothers and himself as “the tragedy.”
Sports, Entertainment, and Media
Jim Tressel
Jim Tressel has done many things in his life, the most recently being a university president and a former Big 10 head football coach. Regardless of what he has been involved in, he mentions that to really have a good life, with all its ups and downs, one must consider what he describes as his five non-negotiables.
Bonnie St John
Bonnie was born missing a growth sensor in her right femur, which meant it didn’t grow like the other one. When she was five, she had the bottom part of her foot and some of the leg amputated so that she could wear a prosthesis. In spite of these challenges, or because of them, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, became a multi-medal winner in the Paralympic games, a celebrated motivational speaker, and a bestselling author of inspirational books including How Strong Women Pray, Micro-Resilience, How Great Women Lead, and Live Your Joy.
Frank Abagnale
Abagnale was living out a picturesque fantasy as a teenager. The movie Catch Me If You Can, where he was played by a dashing Leonardo DiCaprio, chronicled his glamorous, felonious exploits. The world was his oyster, and he gobbled it up. He guzzled century-old red wine and snacked on the finest caviar at soirees around the globe. Beautiful women would flock to his side, hoping to accompany him on his next grand adventure.
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren is an imposing physical presence. A towering, white-blonde Swede, Lundgren played the menacing Soviet superstar opponent of fictional Rocky Balboa on screen in Rocky IV. Lundgren has built his buff body with martial arts, but he also cultivated and nurtured his presence with therapy and meditation.
Jim Morris
If you’ve seen Disney’s The Rookie, you already know about Jim Morris’ life-changing second shot at a career in baseball: unknown 35-year-old high school baseball coach tries out for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and smokes 12 straight 98-mph fastballs over the plate, and by the end of the summer, he’s making his major league debut with the Rays and striking out Royce Clayton of the Texas Rangers in four pitches.
