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"Socrates was called, “An immoral corrupter of youth.”
When
Peter J. Daniel was in the fourth grade, his teacher,
Mrs. Phillips,
constantly said, “Peter J. Daniel, you’re no good to
amount to anything.”
Peter was totally illiterate until he was 26. A
friend stayed up with him
all night and read him a copy of Think and
Grow Rich. Now he owns the
street corners he used to fight on and
just published his latest
book: Mrs. Phillips, You Were Wrong!
Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his
own
compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher
called him
hopeless as a composer.
The
parents of the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso wanted him
to be an engineer. His
teacher said he had no voice at all and
could not sing.
Charles Darwin, father of the theory of Evolution, gave up a medical
career and was told by his father, “You care for nothing but
shooting,
dogs and rats catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin
wrote, “I was
considered by all my masters and by my father, a
very standard in
intellect.”
Thomos
Edison’s teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything.
Albert
Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn’t
read until
he was seven. His teacher described him as “mentally
slow, unsociable and
adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was
expelled and was refused
admittance to the Zurich
Polytechnic
School.
Louis
Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate student
and was ranked
15th out of 22 in chemistry.
Isaac
Newton did very poorly in grade school.
Leo
Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, flunked out of college. He
was described as “both unable and unwilling to learn.”
Henry
Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally
succeeded.
Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime
Minister of
England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime
of defeats and setbacks. His greatest contributions came when he
was a senior citizen.”
Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel,
M*A*S*H,
only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Marrow
decided to publish
it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a
blockbusting movie and a
highly successful television series.
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