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| Author | : Anton D. Charles |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2020-11-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1635688442 |
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moment of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King Jr.
| Author | : Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2019-10-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0807051977 |
The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression. As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
| Author | : Clayton M. Christensen |
| Publisher | : Harvard Business Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2017-01-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1633692574 |
In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
| Author | : Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Ravenio Books |
| Total Pages | : 18 |
| Release | : 2020-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
At the first National Conference on Christian Education of the United Church of Christ, held at Purdue University in the summer of 1958, Martin Luther King presented two notable devotional addresses. Moved by the clear and persuasive quality of his words, many of the 3000 delegates to the conference urged that the meditations be made available in book form. They wanted the book for their own libraries and they were eager to share Dr. King’s vital messages with fellow Christians of other denominations. In the resolute struggle of American Negroes to achieve complete acceptance as citizens and neighbors the author is recognized as a leader of extraordinary resourcefulness, valor, and skill. His concern for justice and brotherhood and the non-violent methods that he advocates and uses, are based on a serious commitment to the Christian faith. As his meditations in this book suggest, Dr. King regards meditation and action as indivisible functions of the religious life. When we think seriously in the presence of the Most High, when in sincerity we “go up to the mountain of the Lord,” the sure event is that “he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths” (Isaiah 2:3).
| Author | : Sidney Poitier |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0061747483 |
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in selfquestioning. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure--as a man, as a husband and father, and as an actor. Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of selfworth that he has never surrendered and that have dramatically shaped his world. "In the kind of place where I grew up," recalls Poitier, "what's coming at you is the sound of the sea and the smell of the wind and momma's voice and the voice of your dad and the craziness of your brothers and sisters ... and that's it." Without television, radio, and material distractions to obscure what matters most, he could enjoy the simple things, endure the long commitments, and find true meaning in his life. Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his upbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile, Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career. Committed to the notion that what one does for a living articulates who one is, Poitier played only forceful and affecting characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition. Here, finally, is Poitier's own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, pride and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the price for artistic integrity, What emerges is a picture of a man seeking truth, passion, and balance in the face of limits--his own and the world's. A triumph of the spirit, The Measure of a Man captures the essential Poitier.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2014-10-14 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0698170040 |
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes. Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world.
| Author | : Loretha Gilchrist Agyare |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 2019-12-04 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1728338514 |
It is so easy to use our Gift than to use our Purpose according to God’s plan for our lives. See we can use our gift of song to singing what we are feeling to the masses of people. We can record and land a major record deal it is easy to recognize by millions. But what if the very gift leads us to our purpose for our lives? See Sole Purpose is something that is deep within all of us. My hope that we pray continually and listen to that spirit within us all to live according to that purpose that God has given us all. No one is here by chance we are all here by blessings. When we live our Sole Purpose it makes all things around us better. Sometimes living our Sole Purpose is to reach people that seem to be forgotten or lost but it may be something that is required by a particular person I call it Sole Purpose. I hope that the information I shared in this book help someone find their Sole Purpose in their life. When we are traveling places share a smile with others and activate Gods power everywhere we go it is required of all of us. I don’t know who need encouraging on a particular day it may not be for us but it just might be for someone else. Always remember to treat others how we want to be treated. No one want to be treated badly. When we go to the store hold the door open. Let someone behind us go ahead of us if, they have fewer items than we do. It is the little things that one doesn’t anticipate but happens because of our kindness. When we show others kindness we show others how to show kindness to others too. If we see human being as beings first instead of race, male or female we learn to see clearer with a better understanding that Jesus died on the cross for all of us. Let us not have so much pride we lose our Sole Purpose. Because living our Sole Purpose makes a better quality of life for all of us. God is trying to reveal to you to find your Sole Purpose and live life to the fullest that only he can fulfill in all our lives. He equips us with what is needed to do his will. If we are doing things that doesn’t seem like it is for us to do; remember if we are not equipped maybe that is not what we are called to do at that given time. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”. Romans 8:28 KJV
| Author | : Florida Scott-Maxwell |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 93 |
| Release | : 2013-07-31 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307828344 |
At eighty-two, Florida Scott-Maxwell felt impelled to write about her strong reactions to being old, and to the time in which we live. Until almost the end this document was not intended for anyone to see, but the author finally decided that she wanted her thoughts and feelings to reach others. Mrs. Scott-Maxwell writes: “I was astonished to find how intensely one lives in one’s eighties. The last years seemed a culmination and by concentrating on them one became more truly oneself. Though old, I felt full of potential life. It pulsed in me even as I was conscious of shrinking into a final form which it was my task and stimulus to complete.” The territory of the old is not Scott-Maxwell’s only concern. In taking the measure of the sum of her days as a woman of the twentieth century, she confronts some of the most disturbing conflicts of human nature—the need for differentiation as against equality, the recognition of the evil forces in our nature—and her insights are challenging and illuminating. The vision that emerges from her accumulated experience of life makes this a remarkable document that speaks to all ages.
| Author | : Clayborne Carson |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0759520372 |
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world —and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The dedicated minister who questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom. The loving husband and father who sought to balance his family’s needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement. And to most of us today, the world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. Relevant and insightful, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. offers King’s seldom disclosed views on some of the world’s greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It paints a moving portrait of a people, a time, and a nation in the face of powerful change. And it shows how Americans from all walks of life can make a difference if they have the courage to hope for a better future.
| Author | : Gloria Feldt |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2021-09-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1637630166 |
Intentioning by best-selling author Gloria Feldt will help you envision the life and career you might have thought were impossible dreams, then give you the courage and actionable tools to achieve them. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a pandemic of racial injustice that together shook our world to its core and revealed deep fault lines in our culture, Gloria Feldt, New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, international leadership expert, successful CEO, and feminist icon, shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity created by massive disruption to build back stronger with diverse women at the center of the recovery. In Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good, Feldt inspires diverse women to embrace their personal power to lead with intention, confidence, and joy. It comes as no surprise to her that women flexed their formidable muscles when needed most, representing a disproportionate number of essential workers during the darkest days of the coronavirus global outbreak and leading the charge against racism in the United States. But this book is decidedly about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all. Feldt not only unveils the next step in advancing gender parity in all spheres of business and life, but she also lays out the vital next steps in the overall advancement of our economy and our civilization. The “Lead Like a Woman” framework and the “9 Leadership Intentioning Tools” she presents in this book will prepare, motivate, and propel women of all diversities and intersectionalities now so that by 2025, women will have attained their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors of industry and society. We simply cannot squander women’s talents when so much hangs in the balance. Women must be at the vanguard of reimagining and reconstructing a vibrant and sustainable future for us all.
