Guest guest Posted April 7, 2004 Report Share Posted April 7, 2004 Dear Friends, In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to driving a truck. "He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"!!!! When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."!!! In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. >From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. WE all gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience............................... where we really stop to look fear in the face.... We must do the thing we think we cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! In LIFE, remember that we pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.... Failure doesn't mean that we should be abandoned . It does mean that--- We have a better alternative. Om Namoh Shivaye Vipin Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 Namaskar Vipinji, Excellent! Very uplifting and inspiring. Thank you very much for the wonderful post. Indeed success does not mean never failing, but in rising every time one falls (Confucius said something along these lines if I may recall). Bless you 1000-fold, Simone , vipin kannan <vipinendran> wrote: > Dear Friends, > >> In LIFE, remember that we pass this way only once! > let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.... > Failure doesn't mean that we should be abandoned . > It does mean that--- We have a better alternative. > > Om Namoh Shivaye > Vipin > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 Then there was Elvis Presly who failed his audition with The Amateur Hour. Vipinji, you are always posting treasures, and you are a treasure, yourself. You are much appreciated. Thank you! Love, K. , vipin kannan <vipinendran> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record > audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The > executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of > musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of > guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. > > In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, > told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn > secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became > Marilyn Monroe. > > In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer > after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You > ought to go back to driving a truck. "He went on to become the most > popular singer in America named Elvis Presley. > > When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not > ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a > demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an > amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"!!!! > > When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 > experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him > how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I > invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."!!! > > In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his > idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. > They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! > He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid > company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic > paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today. > > Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely > and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted > double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left > leg. > At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and > began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, > which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a > runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years > every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but > she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. > From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who > was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold > medals. > > Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be > strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success > achieved. WE all gain strength, experience and confidence by every > experience............................... > where we really stop to look fear in the face.... > We must do the thing we think we cannot do. > And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. > A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! > > In LIFE, remember that we pass this way only once! > let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.... > Failure doesn't mean that we should be abandoned . > It does mean that--- We have a better alternative. > > Om Namoh Shivaye > Vipin > > > > > > Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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