EVERY MAN HIS OWN UNIVERSITY - Success & Empowerment Collection: How to Achieve Success Through Observation (Paperback)

A distinct university walks about under each man s hat. The only man who achieves success in the other universities of the world and in the larger university of life is the man who has first taken his graduate course and his post-graduate course in the university under his hat. There observation furnishes a daily change in the curriculum. Books are not the original sources of power but observation which may bring to us all wide experience deep thinking fine feeling and the power to act for oneself is the very dynamo of power. - Russell H. Conwell (from Every Man His Own University ) Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1925) was an American Baptist minister orator philanthropist lawyer and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds.