7 gifts for your soul
From: Chee Hung Ngoh
<ngohch@netscape.net>
Date : Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:31:53 0800 (SGT)
1.
THE MUSICIANS
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for he
executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed.
While turning down this group of musicians, one executives 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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2. MODELING
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told
modeling 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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3. THE SINGER
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.
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4. INVENTOR
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?"
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5. INVENTOR
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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6. INVENTOR
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.
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7. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER
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 paralyzed 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.
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Nothing in life come easy and smoothly. Only through experiences of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and
success achieved. You gain strength, experience and confidence by every
experience.
You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent
through the hottest furnace.
Champion is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS !