Amerikali yazar, hatip, kisisel gelisimci ve kisiler arasi iletisim uzmani Dale Carnegie'nin olum yildonumu ( 1 Kasim 1955 )
'' Yasam denilen olgu ne garip, degil mi ? Kucuk cocuk ' ben buyuyunce ' der. Biraz daha buyudugunde ' Evlendigim zaman ' der. Evlenince ne olacak ? O zaman soyle dusunecek: ' Emekli olunca. ' Emekli oldugunda, soyle geriye doner, gectigi yollar; sanki o yolun uzerinde soguk bir ruzgar esiyor gibidir, hicbir seyden yararlanamamis, her sey gecip gitmistir. Yasam, yasadigimiz andadir, her gun yasamakta, ama biz bunu gec ogreniyoruz. ''
“ The child says, ‘ When I am a big boy. ’ But what is that ? The big boy says, ‘ When I grow up. ’ And then, grown up, he says, ‘ When I get married. ’ But to be married, what is that after all ? The thought changes to ‘ When I’m able to retire. ’ And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. ”
" Hayatini bir kum saati olarak gormeni istiyorum. Biliyorsun, kum saatinin tepesinde binlerce kum tanecigi vardir. Bunlar saatin ince boynundan yavasca gecerler. Ne yaparsak yapalim, birden fazla kum taneciginin saate zarar vermeden bu ince boyundan gecmesini saglayamayiz. Bizde bu kum saatine benziyoruz. Her sabah uyandigimizda o gun yapmamiz gereken yuzlerce is oldugunu biliriz. Bunlari birer birer yapmazsak, tipki kum saatinin boynundan gecen kumlar gibi gunun icinden yavas yavas gecmelerini saglamazsak, fiziksel ve ruhsal dengemiz bozulur. "
" Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [ tasks ] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure. ”
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