Kutak za inspiraciju i motivaciju
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Re: Kutak za inspiraciju i motivaciju
Uistinu postoji ogromna konfuzija u svim aspektima života; teško je pronaći siguran put; navikli smo se više kritizirati negoli biti konstruktivni.
Konstruktivnost podrazumijeva razvoj ljudskog bića, koji je nemoguć bez temelja. Možda je najveće siromaštvo, ono koje nas pogađa više od svega, nedostatak moralnih temelja.
https://nova-akropola.com/covjek-i-svijet/aktualno/udahnuti-zivot-moralnim-vrijednostima/
Re: Kutak za inspiraciju i motivaciju
kic wrote:
Uistinu postoji ogromna konfuzija u svim aspektima života; teško je pronaći siguran put; navikli smo se više kritizirati negoli biti konstruktivni.
Konstruktivnost podrazumijeva razvoj ljudskog bića, koji je nemoguć bez temelja. Možda je najveće siromaštvo, ono koje nas pogađa više od svega, nedostatak moralnih temelja.
https://nova-akropola.com/covjek-i-svijet/aktualno/udahnuti-zivot-moralnim-vrijednostima/
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Re: Kutak za inspiraciju i motivaciju
YOUR INFLUENCE ON US ALL, FROM 1939 ON, CANNOT BE MEASURED. I CAN ONLY SAY I REMEMBER, WARMLY, YOUR MANY KINDNESSES TO ME WHEN I WAS 19–20–21 YEARS OLD. THAT YOUNG MAN BASKED IN YOUR LIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THE HELP YOU OFFERED WHEN I WAS SO POOR & NEEDFUL!
Ray Bradbury, in a note to Heinlein (August 1976)
Several years ago, when I was ill, Heinlein offered his help, anything he could do, and we had never met; he would phone me to cheer me up and see how I was doing. He wanted to buy me an electric typewriter, God bless him — one of the few true gentlemen in this world. I don't agree with any ideas he puts forth in his writing, but that is neither here nor there. One time when I owed the IRS a lot of money and couldn't raise it, Heinlein loaned the money to me. I think a great deal of him and his wife; I dedicated a book to them in appreciation. Robert Heinlein is a fine-looking man, very impressive and very military in stance; you can tell he has a military background, even to the haircut. He knows I'm a flipped-out freak and still he helped me and my wife when we were in trouble. That is the best in humanity, there; that is who and what I love.
Philip K. Dick, in the introduction to the 1980 short story collection The Golden Man.
I found Robert A. Heinlein in back issues of Astounding, and also in The Saturday Evening Post, and I read everything of his I could find. I was completely hooked on his "juveniles": Space Cadet. Red Planet. Starman Jones. Between Planets. Farmer in the Sky. Wonderful stories, and the only thing "juvenile" about them was that he took the trouble to explain what was happening. Robert once told me that young people want to know how things work, and you can tell them more in a "juvenile" than you can in an adult novel. In any event I devoured everything of his I could find, through high school, the army, college, and I couldn’t have cared less that many were "juveniles". They were wonderful.
I met Robert Heinlein years later, and through some kind of rare magic we became instant friends. We corresponded for a decade. In those days I was an engineering psychologist, operations research specialist, and systems engineer in aerospace. Most of my work was military aerospace, but I did get to work on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. We were helping to make the dream come true!
I went from there to a professorship, and then into political management and city government. Robert visited me when I was working for Mayor Sam Yorty. "You probably don’t know this," he said, "but my political career ended when Yorty beat me for the Democratic nomination to the State Assembly."
When I finally decided to get out of politics, academia, and the aerospace industry and try my hand at writing, Mr. Heinlein was enormously helpful. Years later, when I was an established writer, I asked him how I could pay him back.
"You can’t," he said. "You don’t pay back, you pay forward." I never forgot that, just as I never forgot the wonderful things his ‘juvenile’ stories did for me.
Jerry Pournelle, in "Starswarm" (1997)
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