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Never Say Die.
The Woods are lovely dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Keep Walking Man!
A candidate for a news broadcasters post was
rejected by officials since his
voice was not fit for a news broadcaster.
He was also told that with his obnoxiously long
name, he would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bacchan.
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A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a
poor father, was selling
newspapers in a small village to earn his living.
He was not exceptionally smart at school but was
fascinated by religion and rockets.
The first rocket he built crashed.
A missile that he built crashed multiple times and
he was made a butt of ridicule.
He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey
of India single-handedly.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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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.
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And More!
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.
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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 drivin' a truck."
He went on to become Elvis Presley.
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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."
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Still More!
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 7 long years of rejections, he
finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the
Haloid company, to purchase the
rights to his invention -- an electrostatic
paper-copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
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A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born
prematurely and her survival was doubtful.
When she was 4 years old, she contracted 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 - Wilma Rudolph, went
on to win three Olympic gold medals.
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A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying
attention to his mathematics and for not being
able to solve simple problems.
She told him that you would not become anybody in
life.
The boy was Albert Einstein.
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