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PERSEVERENCE !!

 

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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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, told

modelling hopeful Ms. N J 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 the most popular singer in

America named Elvis Presley.

 

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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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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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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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She 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!!! She was Wilma Rudolph !!

 

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The Moral of the above Stories:

 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. 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 where you really stop to look fear in the face.... You

must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent

through the hottest furnace. A winner is not one who never fails, butone

who NEVER QUITS!

 

 

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