Success
Nearly
every problem may be so broken up into parts which are more easily
managed, as parts, than they are when assembled as a whole.
Perhaps one of the most important advantages of Imagination is that
it enables one to separate all problems into their component parts
and to reassemble them in more favorable combinations.
It has been said that all battles in warfare are won or lost, not on the firing line, after the battle begins, but back of the lines, through the sound strategy, or the lack of it, used by the generals who plan the battles. What is true of warfare is equally true in business, and in most other problems which confront us throughout life.
We win or lose according to the nature of the plans we build and carry out, a fact, which serves to emphasize the value of the Laws of Initiative and Leadership, Imagination, Self-confidence and a Definite Chief Aim.
With the intelligent use of these four laws one may build plans, for any purpose whatsoever, which cannot be defeated by any person or group of persons who do not employ or understand these laws. There is no escape from the truth here stated! ORGANIZED EFFORT is effort which is directed according to a plan that was conceived with the aid of Imagination, guided by a Definite Chief Aim, and given momentum with Initiative and Self-confidence.
These four laws blend into one and become a power in the hands of a Leader. Without their aid effective leadership is impossible. You are now ready for the lesson on Imagination. Read that lesson with the thought in mind of all that has been here stated and it will take on a deeper meaning.
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LIFE IS NOT A GOBLET TO BE DRAINED; IT IS A MEASURE TO BE FILLED. Hadley. |
INTOLERANCE
An After-the-Lesson Visit With the Author
If you must give expression to prejudice and hatred and
intolerance, do not speak it, but write it; write it in the sands, near the
water's edge. When the dawn of Intelligence shall spread over the eastern
horizon of human progress, and Ignorance and Superstition shall have left
their last footprints on the sands of time, it will be recorded in the last
chapter of the book of man's crimes that his most grievous sin was that of
Intolerance.
The bitterest intolerance grows out of religious, racial and economic prejudices and differences of opinion. How long, O God, until we poor mortals will understand the folly of trying to destroy one another because we are of different religious beliefs and racial tendencies? Our allotted time on this earth is but a fleeting moment. Like a candle, we are lighted, shine for a moment, and flicker out.