This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...the will to pay the price of winning it need not hesitate to enter upon the fifth stretch along the highway to leadership. Test the so-called leaders of the past by the test of "The Mind That Interprets." Test those who you think have capacity for leadership. Test yourself. Chapter Six THE PRACTICE THAT PREPARES Many a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...the will to pay the price of winning it need not hesitate to enter upon the fifth stretch along the highway to leadership. Test the so-called leaders of the past by the test of "The Mind That Interprets." Test those who you think have capacity for leadership. Test yourself. Chapter Six THE PRACTICE THAT PREPARES Many a youth of talent, with qualities that promised leadership in various lines of endeavor, has been lost to the world because he had never seen for himself and had never been shown by others the part that practice plays in the preparation for moments that demand leaders. When one hears the almost perfect interpretation of some great selection in oratorio or opera, when he sits enthralled by the sympathetic rendition of a great master's dreams in pure, sweet, unerring tones of a violin or the soft, intoxicating chords of the harp, it is hard for him to remember that, behind the glorious thing that he hears, are the years--the long, long years of exacting, unremitting toil, of self-discipline and real sacrifice. ' She sings so easily," exclaimed a thoughtless woman in real admiration of one of America's truly great voices. Sings easily! Yes, at that moment it seemed so. But that perfect technique, that command of body and mind, was not easy. What hours of patient study that ten minutes represented with what long practice that perfect poise was won! Although it has been said over and over again that no one ever becomes great in a moment, man finds it almost impossible to believe. There still lurks in his consciousness the feeling that some fairy godmother or, some hand of fate has reached out and selected this one and that for a, crown of fame. That great statesman who rose in Congress and in a tense moment of ourl nation's history ga...
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