'We become what we think about.' 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap.'" In 1956 he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status. 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. In the fall of 1949, Nightingale was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Other than Pearl Harbor, it is unknown if Nightingale saw combat during World War 2.Īfter the war Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which eventually led to work as a motivational speaker. Before being mustered, Nightingale was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of twelve surviving Marines on board that day. When Nightingale was seventeen he joined the United States Marines. Diana has continued the legacy of Earl's message and the key to success, “We Become What We Think About”. Diana Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. After his father left, his mother moved the family to a tent in Tent City.
His father, Earl the 4th, abandoned his mother in 1933. Nightingale was born in Los Angeles in 1921.
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