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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Value!

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Opportunities!

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Edison
, inventor
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Globalization!

"After 200 years or 2000 years, we'll be history. So, why not create a multicultural environment for all those coming generations? They'll absolutely thank us for life for our engagement in these globalization efforts."

Khalid Osman

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Learning!

"No expert has been born with expertises' spoon in his mouth."

Khalid Osman

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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Expectations!

"He who awaits much can expect little."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in the small town of Aracataca which lies in the banana zone in the tropical region of northern Colombia. He is a Colombian journalist, novelist, publisher and political activist, well regarded as one of the greatest writers in contemporary Spanish literature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrought as a reporter in some newspapers in Latin America and correspondent to others in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He has lived and spent most of his life in Mexico and Europe. He studied journalism and law at the National University in Bogotá and at the University of Cartagena. He began his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers.

The modern literature schools are discussing the impact of the Spanish language magical realism in the modern literal and art movements. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Romulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for his "One Hundred Years of Solitude. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. He considered worldwide as the greatest Latin American master of narrative.

His novels are published since 1962 and include: Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Of Love and Other Demons.

His short stories and collections include: Leaf Storm, Innocent Erendira, Leaf Storm, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Handsomest Drawn Man in the World, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, No One Writes to the Colonel, Strange Pilgrims, Big Mama's Funeral and For the Sake of a Country Within Reach of the Children.

His non-fictions include: Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin, News of a Kidnapping, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Living to Tell the Tale.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Self-control!

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

Thomas J. Watson - Thomas John Watson was born on February 17, 1874 in Campbell, New York, and died on June 19, 1956; and called that time the world's greatest salesman. His premier formal education was in the Elmira School of Commerce. He began his career in 1892 at the age of 18 as bookkeeper in Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post. He sold pianos and sewing machines later.

Thomas J. Watson was a salesman in the National Cash Register Company (NCR) and then became general sales manager. The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) had been founded in 1911 by Herman Hollerith. Watson became president of the company on 1915 and he renamed the company the International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924 to lead the computers and the electronics world. He was chairman of IMB and Columbia University Trustee.

In 1937 he became president of the International Chamber of Commerce. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1990. Many studies and research centers are established after his name. Many awards also are rewarded from his IBM Corporation. Thomas J. Watson handed the IBM corporation to his older son who was called by his father's name before his death. His son Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914-1993) led the corporation as chairman until he stepped down on 1971.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Confidence!

"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and died on June 1, 1952. He received his PhD from the Krieger School of Arts and Science at John Hopkins University in 1884. He was professor of philosophy at Columbia University on 1904. He developed his practical learning to be implemented during the time that he ran this project of - learning by doing - with his wife at University of Chicago. He was an educator, psychologist and philosopher. His learning methods are described as conceptual philosophy of education and were influential in the United States and worldwide.

John Dewey provided in theory and practises a project on progressive education. He was regarded as one of the founders of the American pragmatism school through which he developed ways for informal educators to follow. He contributed in editing the Encyclopaedia for Unified Science. He has some centres for his own studies in several universities through which his philosophy of education spreads. So his theories are followed by some schools and universities worldwide. He wrote Democracy and Education, based upon the democratic or proto democratic educational philosophies of Plato and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

John Dewey also wrote: How We Think, Human Nature and Conduct, Reconstruction in Philosophy, Liberalism and Social Action, Experience and Education, Freedom and Culture, Knowing and the Known and some other books. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Leadership!

"I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, education and patience."

Dwight Eisenhower is the 34th president of the United States of America, USA. He was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, and brought up in Abilene, Kansas. He was married to Mamie Geneva Doud in 1916. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called Dwight Eisenhower to Washington for a war plan assignment.

Dwight Eisenhower commanded the Allied Forces in North Africa in November 1942; and in 1944 he was Supreme Commander for the troops invading France. He served a Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe as General of the Army, and he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO in 1949.

Dwight Eisenhower became President of Columbia University after the war, and then left to assume supreme command over the NATO forces in 1951. He was persuaded from Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris to run for President in 1952. He was elected in November 1956 for his second term.

Dwight Eisenhower was engaged in talks with Russia during the Cold War and he achieved signing a truce which brought an armed peace along the borders of South Korea in 1953, meanwhile the death of Stalin that year caused shifts in relation with USSR.

He left office in January 1961; and he died in March 28, 1969. He was from the Republican Party. He was preceded by Harry Truman and succeeded by John Kennedy. He had Richard Nixon as his Vice President. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Monday, June 19, 2006

Intellect!

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian renaissance architect, artist painter, sculptor, engineer, anatomist, inventor, musician and geometer. His birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. Da Vinci in his name means from Vinci. He was born on 15 April 1452 in a farmhouse in Anchiano 3 km away from Vinci, Italy and died on 2 May 1519.

Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa has made him fame through centuries. He has achieved also some other great works such as The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Mary Magdalene, the Hand and Knife, the Madona of the Rocks, Madonna Litta, The Baptism of Christ, The Virgin with Flowers, Lady with an Ermine, Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, The Benois Madonna, Last Supper, Leda and the Swan, Bacchus, La belle Ferronière and Portrait of a Musician.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the tank and the use of the concentrated solar power and the calculator, beside some other inventories. He presented detailed studies of flight, based on birds examples and prepared plans for several flying machines including his helicopter which powered by four men.

Leonardo da Vinci achieved some civil engineering projects including his bridge for the Turkish government. Design based on that bridge was applied in Norway in 2001 and in 2006 the Turkish authorities decided to construct his bridge. The Da Vinci Code shows the encoding methods developed by Leonardo da Vinci during his experiments and career. In addition to Leonardo da Vinci Museum, his works are presented in different halls and museums around the world. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Adventure!

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence."

Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Beliefs!

"Believe one who has tried it."

Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro is a Roman poet. The Latin poet was born on October 15, 70 BC in Norhern Italy in a small village called Andes near Manuta in Cisalpine Gaul south of the Alps in northern Italy, and died of fever he caught while he travelled to Greece, on September 21st, 19. BCE in Brindisi - Brundisium harbor. He instructed on his deathbed the Aeneid should be destroyed but by Augustus' order the poem was edited and published after his death.

The Aeneid by Virgil, took his last ten years and came out consists of several books he said in it that Rome will be consisted of mixed blood. He received early education at the age of five years old, studied rhetoric, medicine and astronomy and abandoned this last education to philosophy in Rome. He began writing poetry while he was at school there in Siro the Epicurean. His first poetry published in mid 30's BC. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the historical figure of Vergil guides Dante on his pilgrimage through hell, purgatory and heaven.

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Stepping!

"You don’t have to see the top of the staircase to take the first step."


Martin Luther King is well known as civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964. He was born as civil rights fighter on January 15, 1929 and died in April 4, 1968. His name changed later from Michael to Martin. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and received his B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College known as a Negro institution of Atlanta.
Martin Luther King was awarded the B.D. in 1951 and received the doctorate in 1955. He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 since then and until 1968, (king travelled over six million miles and spoke over twenty five hundred times wherever there was injustice.) He was awarded five honorary degrees and at the age of thirty five, king was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Horizon!

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."

Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905 and died on September 18, 1961. He was the youngest of four sons of Hjalmar Hammarskjold, prime minister of Sweden 1914-1917.

He was member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of Board of the Nobel Foundation. He gained his degree from Uppsala University in 1925 in the humanities, with emphasis on linguistics, literature, and history. Political economy remained his professional interest for some years, so he took a second degree in economics at Uppsala in 1928. He acquired a law degree in 1930 and a doctoral degree in economics in 1934.

Dag Hammarskjöld taught economics for one year in 1933 in Stockholm University. He devoted 31 years in Swedish financial affairs, Swedish foreign relations and global international affairs. He was the secretary of the Bank of Sweden in 1935. He held the post of undersecretary in the ministry of Finance from 1935-1945 and the head of the Bank of Sweden from 1941-1948. He became the deputy foreign minister in 1951.

Dag Hammarskjold represented Sweden as a delegate to the UN in 1949 and from 1951-1953. He was elected Secretary-General of the UN in 1953 for five years term and re-elected again in 1957. He played a remarkable role in the Middle East politics and Katanga problem in Congo where his airplane crashed on the night of September 17-18. He won the Noble Prize for peace in 1961.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Happiness!

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her!"

Oscar Wilde

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Advice!

"Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, critic and philosopher. He was born on 21st October 1772 in the Devon village of Ottery St, Mary and died on July 25, 1834. He founded with his friend William Wordsworth and others the Romantic School in England. From his works: Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Kubla Khan and his poetry in some other collections like the Selected Poems of S.T. Coleridge by James Reeves. His father was vicar and master of the grammar school.

Coleridge was sent as a boarder to Christ's Hospital in London, when his father died. He was nine years old then. He remained there from 1782 to 1791. From October 1971 until December 1794 Coleridge was at Jesus College, Cambridge. Early in 1795 Coleridge was back in Bristol where he began a series of lectures on political subjects to collect funds for the Pantisocratic venture. He established an association with his friend Wordsworth in March 1797. During 1799 to 1800, Coleridge wrote political articles for the Morning Post.

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Enlightenment!

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

Eleanor Roosefult was born in New Yourk on October 11, 1884 and died on November 7,1962. Her father Elliot Roosevelt was the younger brother to President Theodore Roosevelt. Her parents died while she was a child, so she lived with her grandmother Mrs. Valentine G. Hall in Tivoli, New Yourk, where she was educated by private tutors until the age of 15. She was sent to Allenswood girls school in England. She married her fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17,1905.

She was appointed by President Truman to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. She was chairman of the Human Rights Commission during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

She was an American representative to the World Federation of the United Nations Associations, and later became the chairman of the Associations' Board of Directors. She was reappointed to the United States Delegation to the United Nations by President Kennedy in 1961. Kennedy also appointed her as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps and chairman of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Mrs. Roosevelt received many awards for her humanitarian efforts.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Occurrence!

"Nothing happens until something moves."

Albert Einstein. Read more motivational quotes by Einstein here.

Success!

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill- British prime minister, an author and a well known speaker. He attained recognition as a professional writer and speaker. His works as a writer appears in A History of the English Speaking Peoples, My Early Life, First World War, The World Crisis, and The Second World War which earned him the Noble Prize for Literature.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Principles!

"There are two great principles for achieving financial success. The first Principle is what we call the law of attraction. The law of attraction says that you are a living magnet. It says that your thoughts create a force field of energy that radiates out from you and attracts back into your life people and circumstances in harmony with them."

Brian Tracy is an American author and chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in San Diego, California. His works appear also as audio books.
His talk and seminars include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategies. He's the best selling author of several self-improvement books. He's the author of many winning success series such as: Million Dollars Habits, The Science of Positive Focus, Thinking Big: The Keys to Personal Power and Maximum Achievement, Getting Rich in America, Goal Planner with its Goals Package, The Psychology of Selling, Personal Time Management Series, Action Strategies for Personal Achievement, Breaking the Success Barrier, 24 Techniques for Closing the Sale, How You Can Start, Build, Manage or Turn Around Any Business and more than hundred other intellectual products.

Improvement!

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations."

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. CEO of Apple who co-founded it in April 1, 1976. Apple is leading its industry innovation with its award winning desktop and notebook Mac computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution with over 50 million iPod players and iTunes. He popularized the concept of the home computer with the Apple 11.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Self-confidence!

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Robert Frost, America's favorite poet. 1874-1963. He was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 and died in Boston on January 29, 1963. He grew up as a city boy and graduated from high school and wrought in various jobs including teaching, factory works and newspaper delivery.

Descriptively analysing, his poetry was simple and direct. He received 4 Pulitzers Prizes and other honors. From his selected works: Three Poems, New Hampshire, Mountain Interval, Home Burial, A Witness Tree, A Further Range, Hard Not to be King, The Lone Striker and more poems and plays.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Intellection!

"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Full name: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The Soviet greatest writer was born in Moscow on October 30, 1821 and died on February 9, 1881. He is one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. His works as wikipedia says exhibit both an uncanny grasp of human psychology as well as penetrating analyses of the political, social and spiritual states of Russia in his time. His greatest works include: Crime and Punishment - 1866, The Brothers Karamazov - 1880, The Possessed - 1872, The House of the Dead - 1860, and the Idiot - 1868.

Prize!

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President. He was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, New York and died on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York. White House says with the assassination of President McKinely, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43 became the youngest President in America's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigoroudly led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and strong foreign policy.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Enthusiasm!

"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."

Thomas Edison

Inspiration!

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

Forgiveness!

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

Friday, June 02, 2006

Education!

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

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