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Articles: Talents | never give up...............
- Mr. ravi kumar
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Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasterspostsince 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 isAmitabh Bachchan.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played theirfirst recordauditionfor the executives of the Decca Recording Company.
The executives were not impressed. While turning downthis group ofmusicians,one executive said, 'We don't like their sound. Groupsof guitars areon the way out.'
The group was calledThe Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue BookModeling Agencytold modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker,'You'd better learn secretarial work or else getmarried'.
She went on and becameMarilyn 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 todrivin' a truck'.
He went on to become Elvis Presley.
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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 hebuilt 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 isDr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India.
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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, PresidentRutherford Hayes said,'That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want
to see 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 manytimes.He said, 'I never failed once. I invented the lightbulb.It just happened to be a 2000-step process'.
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In the 1940s, another young inventor namedChester Carlson
took his idea to 20 corporations, including some ofthe 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
electrostaticpaper-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 4years 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 beendependent onand began towalk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic
walk,which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she
decided to becomea runner.She entered a race and came in last. For the next fewyears 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 goldmedals.
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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.
regards
ravi kumar m
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