Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Ironic's!!
A dejected Hardward university drop out, started a small company by purchasing the technology for 50 US dollars. He, in turn, revolutionized the way computer is seen and used-Bill Gates
Youngster lost the job, defeated in 6 elections, failed in all the businesses, lost the girl, had a nervous break down and people thought he would just never make it- Abraham Lincoln
The Vice President of Columbia told him that he was never going to make it in the business. - Harrison Ford
His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham
Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" -Beatles
Was told by his father that he would amount to nothing and be a disgrace to himself and his family - Charles Darwin
Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" and and during his career, he lost his hearing- Beethoven
Was told that "he couldn't sing at all" -Enrico Caruso
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney
Were told by Publishers that "anthologies didn't sell" and the book was "too positive"-
Rejected a total of 140 times. Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.
Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything"- Thomas Edison
Failed the sixth grade - Winston Churchill
Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" - Albert Einstein
Did poorly in school and failed at running the family farm - Isaac Newton
Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W. Woolworth
Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan
Producer told her she was "unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe
This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year-Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Auditioned for All My Children and got rejected, producers ridiculed her as - Julia Roberts
Dropped out of junior high school. He was persuaded to come back and was placed in a learning-disabled class. He only lasted a month and then dropped out of school forever- Steven Speilburg
First product was an electric rice cooker, only sold 100 cookers (because it burned rice rather than cooking).- Sony Corporation
God did not give you enough???????????
Ever thought life is boring or nothing is inspiring enough? read this!
she was born into a large family -- she was the 20th of 22 children! Her parents, were honest, hardworking people, but were very poor. Her father worked as a railroad porter and handyman. Mother did cooking, laundry and housecleaning for wealthy white families.
she born prematurely and weighed only 4.5 pounds. Again, because of racial segregation, she and her mother were not permitted to be cared for at the local hospital. It was for whites only. There was only one black doctor in Clarksville, and the family''s budget was tight, so her mother spent the next several years nursing her one illness after another: measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox and double pneumonia. But, she had to be taken to the doctor when it was discovered that her left leg and foot were becoming weak and deformed. She was told she had polio, a crippling disease that had no cure. The doctor told her mother that kid would never walk. But they would not give up on her. She found out that she could be treated at Meharry Hospital, the black medical college of Fisk University in Nashville. Even though it was 50 miles away, her parents took her there twice a week for two years, until she was able to walk with the aid of a metal leg brace. Then the doctors taught to do the physical therapy exercises at home. All of her brothers and sisters helped too, and they did everything to encourage her to be strong and work hard at getting well.By the time she was 8, she could walk with a leg brace. After that, she used a high-topped shoe to support her foot. She played basketball with her brothers every day.
Three years later, her mother came home to find her playing basketball by herself bare-footed. She didn't even have to use the special shoe
They took her to all the sports meet in near states to make her happy. Once she told her father that she want to participate. Just for making her happy, he talked with authorities and they allowed her to run as the 11th participant. It took her big pains to finish, but enthralled crowd just kept clapping until she finished. Poor girl was all in tears when she finished after a long time. Her life took a head turn from there. She participated in all the events she could and finally after two years made the biggest achivement of her life-she finished as 9th. Family cuddled together and cried seeing this and this incident gave her the necessary spark to lighten up the life.
A track coach encouraged her to start running. She ran so well that during her senior year in high school, she qualified for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. She won a bronze medal in the women's 400-meter relay.
In 1959, she qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome by setting a world's record in the 200-meter race. At the Olympics that year she won two gold medals; one for the 100-meter race and one for the 200-meter race.
Then she sprained her ankle, but she ignored the pain and helped her team to win another gold medal for the 400-meter relay
You know who is this girl? Its none other than Wilma Rudolph who went on to become the greatest athlete ever in Sports history.
How far can we stretch the words "determination" or "inspiration" or "hardwork"?!
she was born into a large family -- she was the 20th of 22 children! Her parents, were honest, hardworking people, but were very poor. Her father worked as a railroad porter and handyman. Mother did cooking, laundry and housecleaning for wealthy white families.
she born prematurely and weighed only 4.5 pounds. Again, because of racial segregation, she and her mother were not permitted to be cared for at the local hospital. It was for whites only. There was only one black doctor in Clarksville, and the family''s budget was tight, so her mother spent the next several years nursing her one illness after another: measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox and double pneumonia. But, she had to be taken to the doctor when it was discovered that her left leg and foot were becoming weak and deformed. She was told she had polio, a crippling disease that had no cure. The doctor told her mother that kid would never walk. But they would not give up on her. She found out that she could be treated at Meharry Hospital, the black medical college of Fisk University in Nashville. Even though it was 50 miles away, her parents took her there twice a week for two years, until she was able to walk with the aid of a metal leg brace. Then the doctors taught to do the physical therapy exercises at home. All of her brothers and sisters helped too, and they did everything to encourage her to be strong and work hard at getting well.By the time she was 8, she could walk with a leg brace. After that, she used a high-topped shoe to support her foot. She played basketball with her brothers every day.
Three years later, her mother came home to find her playing basketball by herself bare-footed. She didn't even have to use the special shoe
They took her to all the sports meet in near states to make her happy. Once she told her father that she want to participate. Just for making her happy, he talked with authorities and they allowed her to run as the 11th participant. It took her big pains to finish, but enthralled crowd just kept clapping until she finished. Poor girl was all in tears when she finished after a long time. Her life took a head turn from there. She participated in all the events she could and finally after two years made the biggest achivement of her life-she finished as 9th. Family cuddled together and cried seeing this and this incident gave her the necessary spark to lighten up the life.
A track coach encouraged her to start running. She ran so well that during her senior year in high school, she qualified for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. She won a bronze medal in the women's 400-meter relay.
In 1959, she qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome by setting a world's record in the 200-meter race. At the Olympics that year she won two gold medals; one for the 100-meter race and one for the 200-meter race.
Then she sprained her ankle, but she ignored the pain and helped her team to win another gold medal for the 400-meter relay
You know who is this girl? Its none other than Wilma Rudolph who went on to become the greatest athlete ever in Sports history.
How far can we stretch the words "determination" or "inspiration" or "hardwork"?!
Monday, July 5, 2010
My Favorite!
Hi Guys, I will be posting some facts or stories or incident which I found as interesting. Of course, all of them are from the books I read or news papers or TV channels, Just wanna share with you all those things acting as a collector. Here comes the first one and my favorite.
Every News paper, I wish, has an Editorial Section, some like Hindu even have Editor's response session on queries from readers. While Hindu's is interesting, I often feel that same feature in other daily's are mostly dump and robotic. And Even in Hindu, I feel that Editor response is in very "Professional" or "diplomatic" manner , mostly none of them are from the heart. Newspaper should not be diplomatic or pragmatic in their nature, instead they should act as a mirror. If you have any doubt on how an editor and his response should be, pls read the incident below, its undoubtedly the greatest editorial in News paper history.
Sun newspaper had, I am not sure whether they have now, a QA page before. This was considered as a major feature in the daily and people from all over the world participated in this for getting exact and extra information on any particular topic.
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps
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"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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Francis Pharcellus would have been in great dilemma for sure. He can neither break child's hope nor can he put unscientific/unproven facts and wat a response he gave.
Cheers
Every News paper, I wish, has an Editorial Section, some like Hindu even have Editor's response session on queries from readers. While Hindu's is interesting, I often feel that same feature in other daily's are mostly dump and robotic. And Even in Hindu, I feel that Editor response is in very "Professional" or "diplomatic" manner , mostly none of them are from the heart. Newspaper should not be diplomatic or pragmatic in their nature, instead they should act as a mirror. If you have any doubt on how an editor and his response should be, pls read the incident below, its undoubtedly the greatest editorial in News paper history.
Sun newspaper had, I am not sure whether they have now, a QA page before. This was considered as a major feature in the daily and people from all over the world participated in this for getting exact and extra information on any particular topic.
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps
*******************************************
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
*******************************************
Francis Pharcellus would have been in great dilemma for sure. He can neither break child's hope nor can he put unscientific/unproven facts and wat a response he gave.
Cheers
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