3 Quotes & Sayings By William David Hannah

William David Hannah was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on November 27, 1926. He received his early education at the University of Kansas, graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1948. He then served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II Read more

After the war, he began working for newspapers in Kansas and Missouri—including the Kansas City Star, The Des Moines Register and Tribune, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. William David Hannah is one of the best-selling authors of all time.

His books have sold more than 70 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His works include How to Get Ahead (1958), How to Win Friends and Influence People (1961), Think and Grow Rich (1964), How to Handle People Who Treat You Badly (1970), The Magic of Believing (1983), The Greatest Salesman in the World (1986). His major works are designed to be read twice—once for an understanding of human nature and human motivation; again for action steps to take.

You can learn more about him at www.wdyhancock.com

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The words beat through me like a cosmic string that threatened to dissolve my molecular bonds. The wave fed upon itself until the tsunami it created swept me out of my life and into a world of confinement that broached vastness. That, after all, was the process of space travel. The small spaces, the great speed, the reach beyond knowable. William David Hannah
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And now, I needed the stars. Not the explosive ones that hurled out tongues of gas and, along with gravity, hammered out the planets. I needed the comforting ones that twinkled like a childhood song, that spun about my head, my head alone as I watched them. I was the ‘one who knows’ after all. I was…consciousness. William David Hannah