Ralph Parlette

The University of Hard Knocks Ralph Parlette

Classics for your collection: goo.gl/U80LCr MORE than a million people have sat in audiences in all parts of the United States and have listened to "The University of Hard Knocks." It has been delivered more than twenty-five hundred times upon lyceum courses, at chautauquas, teachers' institutes, club gatherings, conventions and before various other kinds of audiences. Ralph Parlette is kept busy year after year lecturing, because his lectures deal with universal human experience. "Can I get the lecture in book form?" That continuous question from audiences brought out this book in response. Here is the overflow of many deliveries. "What is written here is not the way I would write it, were I writing a book," says Ralph Parlette. "It is the way I say it. The lecture took this unconscious colloquial form before audiences. An audience makes a lecture, if the lecture survives. I wish I could shake the hand of every person who has sat in my audiences. And I wish I could tell the lecture committees of America how I appreciate the vast amount of altruistic work they have done in bringing the audiences of America together. For lecture audiences are not drawn together, they are pushed together." This book should be required reading for everyone in high school AND college. This one is a classic first published in 1914, so there's none of that New Age stuff in there. Just solid life-changing stories that implore you to grow upward as opposed to shaking downward. Don't let the "classic" labeling perturb you. This one is for EVERYONE. Interesting life lessons presented with humor and honesty. "Our greatness therefore does not depend upon how much we give or upon what we do, whether peeling potatoes or ruling a nation, but upon the percentage of our output to our resources." "Gussie was in the position of a man with a very fine equipment of tools and no experience in using them. Bill was the man with the poor, homemade, crude tools, but with the energy, vision and strength developed by struggle." Success is not tomorrow or next year. Success is now. Success is not at the end of the journey, for there is no end. Success is every day in flowing and growing. Overcoming Obstacles Develops Power That is exactly what happens when you and I overcome our obstacles. We develop our light and power. We are rivers of light and power, but it is all latent and does no good until we overcome obstacles as we go on south. Obstacles are the power stations on our way south! Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy