Books Are Tremendous

 

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PIC No. 1: Pails in Comparison - Books Are Tremendous: What They Represent to Some of Those Who Have Written, Read and Loved Them (Life-Changing Classics)
• Author: Charlie “Tremendous” Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Tremendous Life Books (64 pages)
• Management Bucket #5 of 20: The Book Bucket

Welcome to the first issue of Pails in Comparison (Feb. 25, 2022), the sidekick of John Pearson’s Buckets Blog. This blog features my “PICs”—short reviews of helpful books—with comparisons to other books in my 20 management buckets (core competencies) filing system.

NEVER LEND BOOKS!

Pick a page—any page—and you’ll strike motivational gold in Books Are Tremendous. This iPhone-size gem is a keeper. Here’s a taste:

“Setting aside just 15 minutes a day will enable you to read up to two dozen books in a year. Keep it up and you will have read 1,000 books in your lifetime. That’s the equivalent of going through college five times.” (G. Gordan)

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.” (Anatole France)

“A drop of ink may make a million think.” (Lord Byron)

“When is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” (Henry Ward Beecher)

“Charles Lamb once said he felt more like saying grace before a good book than before meat.”
(See the “Reader’s Prayer”)

“Never read anything until not to have read it has bothered you for some time.” (Samuel Butler)

PAILS IN COMPARISON: I’d compare this book to my growing collection of books in The Book Bucket that feature quotations, axioms, and memorable one-liners.

• The Best of Success: A Treasury of Inspiration, by Mac Anderson and Bob Kelly

• Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert

• The Manager's Book of Quotations, by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel

Just 64 pages (and very low cost), I keep Books Are Tremendous right on my desk—ready when I need a pithy quotation. While other quotation books have thousands of quotations (the “Manager’s” book has 5,000), you’ll appreciate the succinctness of Books Are Tremendous.

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