Inspiration

[Goric]

>Subject: Failures that led to success
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>Out of the first four stores F. W. Woolworth opened, three failed. When
>he died, he was worth more than $20 million.
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>Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.
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>Isaac Newton did poorly in grand school and was considered "unpromising".
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>Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is
>hopeless."
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>Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
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>Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination, and
>had no good ideas".
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>Admiral Peary tried to reach the North Pole on seven different trips before
>he made it on the eighth.
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>Thomas Edison's teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
>Later, he tried 1,600 different materials before settling on carbon as the
>filament for the electric light bulb.
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>Willie Mays didn't get a hit in his first 26 times at bat in the Major
>League, but his first hit was a home run!
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>Babe Ruth struck out 1300 times--a major league record.
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>Noah preached for 120 years and had NO converts.
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