MASTERS OF THE SITUATION: Secrets for Success and Power (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 470)
Book Details
Author(s)William James Tilley
PublisherBusiness and Leadership Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00IJJXNUI
ISBN-13978B00IJJXNU2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
TRUTH is as old as the world. As no two, however, see exactly the same rainbow, so no truth presents itself to all alike. So much has been written, we are told, that it is no longer possible even to appear original. Yet all will agree that the manner of presenting old truths is of the first importance. " The difference in men consists not so much in mere knowledge, after all, as in the ability to reproduce knowledge—that power of the mind which assimilates, tests, and pronounces its own verdict on all the waifs of idea which are borne to it from the minds of others."
Many of us can understand the feeling which prompted him who, failing to find in his library the book he wanted, went to work and made one. On the other hand, at rare intervals we have found the book we wanted as well, only to rise from its perusal with a keener appetite for others like it. One can hardly read certain books without instinctively wishing for more like them. Such books are " never crowded, and never crowd." Of such there cannot be too many. Men love Raphael none the less because they admire Correggio.
No one can contemplate youth, with its beauty and power, its infinite hope and aspiration, without being touched to the heart. While from one standpoint life seems "a joy for ever," from another it impresses one as inexpressibly sad and full of pathos. As one gets on in life, and realizes more and more fully the lost opportunities of the irreparable past, and scans the horizon, limited and narrowing at best, between youth and old age, he longs to reach out a hand, to send out a voice that perchance may be heard.
With all its buoyancy and hope and seeming assurance, youth has its hours of discouragement and despondency, and young men are often faint-hearted. They believe in all things else save in themselves. Too often they lack the courage to go out in pursuit of life's prizes and rewards. For such this volume has been written. At the same time, it is hoped it may not be found wholly wanting in hints and incentives of value to those farther on.
" My son," remarked the good old Quaker, " thee thinks thee has a call to preach. Has thee also considered well whether the people have a call to hear thee? "
If those for whom this book has been written shall be found to have " a call to hear," I shall not have laboured in vain.
Many of us can understand the feeling which prompted him who, failing to find in his library the book he wanted, went to work and made one. On the other hand, at rare intervals we have found the book we wanted as well, only to rise from its perusal with a keener appetite for others like it. One can hardly read certain books without instinctively wishing for more like them. Such books are " never crowded, and never crowd." Of such there cannot be too many. Men love Raphael none the less because they admire Correggio.
No one can contemplate youth, with its beauty and power, its infinite hope and aspiration, without being touched to the heart. While from one standpoint life seems "a joy for ever," from another it impresses one as inexpressibly sad and full of pathos. As one gets on in life, and realizes more and more fully the lost opportunities of the irreparable past, and scans the horizon, limited and narrowing at best, between youth and old age, he longs to reach out a hand, to send out a voice that perchance may be heard.
With all its buoyancy and hope and seeming assurance, youth has its hours of discouragement and despondency, and young men are often faint-hearted. They believe in all things else save in themselves. Too often they lack the courage to go out in pursuit of life's prizes and rewards. For such this volume has been written. At the same time, it is hoped it may not be found wholly wanting in hints and incentives of value to those farther on.
" My son," remarked the good old Quaker, " thee thinks thee has a call to preach. Has thee also considered well whether the people have a call to hear thee? "
If those for whom this book has been written shall be found to have " a call to hear," I shall not have laboured in vain.
