A painting from Taner Ceylan..."Spiritual"

Hyperrealism

Nichola Tesla...10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”

Steve Mcqueen...1930-1980

Enzo

Og Mandino quotes

*Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

*Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

*Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

*Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

*Do all things with love.

*Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

*I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

*I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

*I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

*It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

*Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

*Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

*Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

*Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

*The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

*There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

*To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

*Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

*Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Og Mandino...

Mandino was born December 12, 1923. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, he was named after his paternal grandfather.

Mandino was once the editor of a high school paper and planned to attend the University of Missouri's journalism school. But in the summer of 1940, before Mandino was able to enter college, his mother died suddenly from a massive heart attack. This happened while Mandino's mother was in the kitchen preparing his lunch. After the incident, Mandino decided to work in a paper factory until 1942. Afterwards, Mandino joined the United States Army Air Corps where he became a military officer and a bombardier. He flew for thirty bombing missions over Germany on board a B-24 Liberator during World War II.^[1] It was also during this time that Mandino flew with fellow pilot and movie star, James Stewart. Mandino kept a personalized 8 X 10 photograph of Stewart. This photograph hung on the wall of his home office where he wrote his books.

After his military duties, Mandino discovered that many companies were not hiring many former bomber pilots. As a result, he became an insurance salesman. Traveling on the road and sitting in bars at night, Mandino became an alcoholic. He was unable to keep a job. As a result, Mandino's wife, together with their only child, left him.

One wintry November morning in Cleveland, Mandino almost tried to commit suicide. But as he sorted through several books in a library, volumes of self-help, success and motivation books captured Mandino's attention. He selected some titles, went to a table and began reading. Mandino followed his visit to the library with more visits to many other libraries around the United States. He read hundreds of books that dealt with success, a pastime that helped him alleviate his alcoholism. It was in a library in Concord, New Hampshire, where he found W. Clement Stone's classic, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, a book that changed Mandino for the better.

Mandino eventually became a successful writer. His works were inspired by the Bible and influenced by Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, and Emmet Fox.

Uzak durun

boş konuşmaktan

boşa kelam etmekten

konuşmuş olmak için konuşmaktan

geyik yapmaktan

konuşuyormuş gibi yapmaktan

karşındaki insanın vaktini ve nefesini boşa harcamaktan

kendi vaktini ve nefesini boşa harcamaktan

yazının başlığında da dediğim gibi

uzak durun...

Stay away from ...

Vain talking

Vain discourse

fruitless discussion

empty declamation

meaningless talk

vain jangling

vain babbling

foul language

empty words

useless talk

idle talk

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. He was a chemist, engineer, and inventor. In 1895 Nobel purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he converted into a major armaments  manufacturer. Nobel also invented ballistite, a precursor to many smokeless military explosives, especially cordite, the main British smokeless powder. Nobel was even involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite. Nobel amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous.

In 1888, Alfred had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled ‘The merchant of death is dead’, in a French newspaper. As it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died, the obituary was eight years premature.

Alfred was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will.On 10 December 1896 Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, at the age of 63 from a cerebral haemorrhage.

To widespread surprise, Nobel's last will requested that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature.

İnsanca yaşamak ne demektir ?

Bir kere herkes şunu çok iyi bilmelidir ki

bu dünyada var olma sebebimiz boşa değildir...

ilahi plan bize bir görev biçmiştir

hedef,  insan-ı kamil olabilme hedefidir

ve bu hedefe ancak

adaletin hüküm sürdüğü, nimetlerin hakça bölüşüldüğü, dostluğun hakim olduğu

ortamlarda ulaşılabilir

çünkü ancak böyle bir çevrede insan farkındalığını arttıracak araçlara ulaşabilir

okur, gezer, keşfeder ve içinde yaşadığı kainatı herşeyiyle öğrenmeye başlar

AMA

sen bu kıymetli varlığı ezersen

aç bırakırsan

hakkını yersen

yani onu cahilleştirecek her türlü ortamı sağlarsan

o bu hedefe senin yüzünden ulaşamadığı için mazur görülür

AMA

sen görülmezsin...

İnsan

İnsan evrendeki en kıymetli varlıktır...

bir tasarım harikasıdır

yaşadığı bu dünya

Avatar filmindeki "çakma dünyanın " orjinalidir...

çoklu zekaya sahip,

vicdanı olan

düşünebilen, hayal edebilen

koruma güdüsü gelişmiş

merhametli bir varlıktır

bilinçli ve farkındalığı olan bir canlıdır

üzüldüğünde ağlayan, müzikle danseden

güldüğünde güzelleşen

onurlu bir yaşam sürme hedefi olan

sevmesini bilen, sevilmek isteyen değerli bir varlıktır

VE

bu şerefli varlık

hakettiği şekilde yaşamalıdır

Ey lider ! Hak yerini bulur

Halktan kopuk ve Hakk'tan uzak yaşamayacaksın

İnsanına düşkün olacaksın...İnsanlığa hizmet edeceksin...

Adalet duygun diğer tüm duygularından daha gelişmiş olacak

hak yemeyecek, hak gözeteceksin...

Gönlünü hizmet duygusu kaplayacak, gönlünü hizmet etmeye adayacaksın

Birleştiren, bütünleştiren olacaksın

Halkın açken, sen tok yatmayacaksın

Fakir devlet yoktur, fakirleştirilen halk vardır...

bunun bilinciyle yöneteceksin ülkeni

Eğer bunlardan birini eksik yaparsan

sen bilirsin !

Önce Hakk

sonra halk çeker paçandan aşağıya

nereye kaçarsan kaç

Hakk bulur yerini...

Need some inspiration ?

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

Wherever you are - be all there.
Jim Elliot

Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles