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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Enlightening Thoughts

FROM: A Perfect Anomaly
• Leo Tolstoy, author of ‘War & Peace’ flunked out of college.
• Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
• Beethoven’s music teacher told him, “As a composer, you’re hopeless.”
• Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was “..too stupid to learn anything new.”
• And what about the newspaper editor who fired Walt Disney? He was reported saying that Disney had no creative ideas left. Yet he has won more Oscars than anyone.
• Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade
• Twenty-three publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book.
• In 1962, an infamous Decca Records executive told the Beatles to “Go back to Liverpool!” because he was sure that “groups with guitars were out.”
• Where basketball would be if Michael Jordan gave up after getting cut from his high school basketball team as a sophomore?

In life, your will to overcome adversity and persevere is what defines you. So whatever you face in 2005, remember these success stories and maintain your will to “press onward and upward". Be inspired by both your successes and your failures, remembering to appreciate and experience each moment.
|| JM, 10:54 AM

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