... done your homework, know what you must do to make the sale. You~re prepared. Preparation is the difference between the amateur and the pro, the star and the alsoran, the winner and those who trail behind. Bryant Gumbel, the very polished host of NBC's "Today" show for the past 14 years, is one of those who knows about preparation. Gumbel says he never gets nervous on the air. His secret is to be overly prepared. It isn't the information he's absorbing that matters so much as the act of getting ready and the ...
... of people through the ages who have experienced the trials of Job. Trust God and live. 1."Funny Pages Serve Up Spiritual Food for Thought," Tom Schaefer, Kingsport Times-News, April 30, 1995, p. 5E. 2. "A Survivor Speaks," interview by Bryant Gumbel with survivor Manu Dhingra, The Early Show, CBS, Oct. 3, 2001, transcript on CBS website. 3. New York September Eleven Two Thousand One, a de.MO project (Rhode Island: Meridian Printing, 2001). 4. Abbie McGreavey, Red Cross mental health counselor, "Horror ...
... turn to reading verses from the Bible. People can die quite alone in hospitals. They die alone in a kind of conspiracy of silences because we don''t want to face the reality of death. On her seventy-ninth birthday Bette Davis was interviewed on the "Today" show by Bryant Gumbel. She expressed her curiosity about her mortality. "I''m really curious about how I will go and what will happen. But my friends don''t like it when I talk about it. `Don''t talk about it,'' they say. `We don''t want to hear about it ...
