Success from Failures

Failure is the stepping stone to Success!!

* Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post 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 Bachchan.

* 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'.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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. He is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India.

* 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 see one of them?”

* 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”.

* 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.

* 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 aparalyzed 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.

* A schoolteacher 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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“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did”

A Matter of Time

You only get to keep what you give away It's a universal law: You have to give before you get. You must plant your seeds before you reap the harvest. The more you sow, the more you'll reap. In giving to others, you'll find yourself blessed.The law works to give you back more than you have sown. The giver's harvest is always full. Those that obtain have little. Those who scatter have much. Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

"Well," said Einstein, "I was once walking in the country with a blind friend of mine. The day was hot and I said that I would enjoy a nice cool drink of Milk. "Milk?" asked my friend. "Drink I understand, but what is milk?" "A white liquid," I explained. "Liquid I understand, but what is white?""The colour of a swan's feathers." "Feathers I understand, but what is a swan?" "A bird with a crooked neck." "Neck I understand, but what is crooked?" I gently took his arm and straightened it. "That's straight," I said. Then I bent it at the elbow. "And this is crooked." "Oh," exclaimed the blind man, "now I understand what you mean by milk."

Solution: Your Name

"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying: 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."

Mary Kay Ashe

Why can we see through glass?

Because solid though it may seem, glass is really a viscous liquid. I'll pause a moment while that crosses your synapses and bounces among your neurons.Mind you that's a viscous, not vicious liquid such as a mix of vodka and champagne. A viscous liquid stiffens when cooled, but never becomes completely solid. Unlike solids, in which the atoms arrange themselves in a rigid, crystalline molecular structure, glass atoms just hang out, helter-skelter-like. Light can squeeze between them.The molecular make-up of glass, unlike that of ordinary solids, such as wood, also keeps it from absorbing visible light. Its structure also prevents the loss of light through internal reflections, characteristic of a solid. Only glass' outer surface reflects light, which makes it considerably more useful than, say, silver or tin for eyeglass lenses.The greatest part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington 1732-1802

I've dreamed many dreams that never came true. I've seen them vanish at dawn, but I've realized enough of my dreams, thank god, to make me want to dream on.

I've prayed many prayers when no answer came, though I waited patient and long but answers have come to enough of my prayers to make me want to keep praying on.

I've trusted many a friend that failed, and left me to weep alone. But I've found enough of my friend’s true blue to make me trust on.

I've sown many seed that fell by the way for the birds to feed upon but I've held enough golden sheaves in my hands to make me keep sowing on.

I've drained the cup of disappointment and pain and gone many days without song but I've sipped enough nectar from the roses of life to make me want to live on.

Imagination

The imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature endued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call understanding, and is common to man and beast.

Speech

The general use of speech is to transfer our mental discourse into verbal, or the train of our thoughts into a train of words, and that for two commodities; whereof one is the registering of the consequences of our thoughts, which being apt to slip out of our memory and put us to a new labour, may again be recalled by such words as they were marked by.