Consider This...
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Consider This
After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, “can’t act! Slightly Bald! Can dance a little!” Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.
An expert said of Vince Lombardi: “He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lacks Motivation.”
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, you’re a bad apple and you’re never going 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.
Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant or seamstress by her family.
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 teachers 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 rat catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, “I was considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Walt Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
Thomas EdisonÂ’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 refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School.
Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15 out of 22 in chemistry.
Isaac Newton did very poorly in grade school.
The sculptor Rodin’s father said, “I have an idiot for a son.” Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable.
Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, flunked out of college. He was described as “both unable and unwilling to learn.”
Playwright Tennessee Williams was enraged when his play, Me, Vasha was not chosen in a class competition at Washington University where he was enrolled in English XVI. The teacher recalled that Williams denounced the judgesÂ’ choices and their intelligence.
F. W. WoolworthÂ’s employers at the dry goods store said he had not enough sense to wait upon customers.
Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.
Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.
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.”
Eighteen publishers turned down Richard BachÂ’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, before Macmillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than seven million copies in the U.S. alone.
Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H, only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Morrow decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a blockbusting movie and highly successful television series.
By Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen
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Nice motivation article...
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More to come...Originally posted by Simple_Bear:Nice motivation article... -
This proves tt life is indeed unpredictable. It sucks on the outside but ??? in the inside.
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Yes...I now think I am not a failure in life.....Originally posted by Simple_Bear:Nice motivation article... -
One is a failure when he gives up on himself...Originally posted by I_am_PeTe_Parker:Yes...I now think I am not a failure in life..... -
If first you don't succeed...try again.Originally posted by Simple_Bear:One is a failure when he gives up on himself... -
Which reminds me of an inspiring speech I heard this morning...
About daring to dream...and what can prevent you from daring to dream and achieving success in your life...Fear and Failure are two of them... -
Try again if U dun succeed the second time...Originally posted by I_am_PeTe_Parker:If first you don't succeed...try again. -
In short.. hum ji..Originally posted by rainee:Which reminds me of an inspiring speech I heard this morning...
About daring to dream...and what can prevent you from daring to dream and achieving success in your life...Fear and Failure are two of them... -
I daydream a lot...Originally posted by rainee:Which reminds me of an inspiring speech I heard this morning...
About daring to dream...and what can prevent you from daring to dream and achieving success in your life...Fear and Failure are two of them... -
si mi?Originally posted by Gackt247:In short.. hum ji.. 
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i was told to give up my o lvl exams after i scored 40++ pts aggregate by my teachers, and my parents tot it as la natural for a dumbass like me.
so i took private o lvls and a private diploma at the same time.
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Good to know you never give up!Originally posted by Ito_^:i was told to give up my o lvl exams after i scored 40++ pts aggregate by my teachers, and my parents tot it as la natural for a dumbass like me.
so i took private o lvls and a private diploma at the same time. 
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And if you dun succeed the third time...Originally posted by Simple_Bear:Try again if U dun succeed the second time...
Just before attempting to try the 4th time....maybe you should sit down for awhile and reassess your abilities and maybe contemplate something less challenging.....A more reasonable and reachable goal so that you can tell people you are not a failure... -
the article made me wonder: will those students whom i called "piece of *#^$%@*#^$" amount to anything good in future and i have to swallow my words then??? lolz...
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Hmm, don't ever call them that leh...as a teacher, you have the power to encourage them to be a better student...if you tell them they are hopeless, how can they have confidence in their own ability?Originally posted by starblue:the article made me wonder: will those students whom i called "piece of *#^$%@*#^$" amount to anything good in future and i have to swallow my words then??? lolz... -
yup. and u never know how much grudge they may have - one of the dudes above wrote a book just to screw his teacher up years down the road.Originally posted by starblue:the article made me wonder: will those students whom i called "piece of *#^$%@*#^$" amount to anything good in future and i have to swallow my words then??? lolz...
beware!! -
Being a teacher is so difficult...but I plan to be that at least for a while next time, before I have enough capital to have my own businessOriginally posted by Ito_^:yup. and u never know how much grudge they may have - one of the dudes above wrote a book just to screw his teacher up years down the road.
beware!! -
these kids degrade themselves. seriously.. when i first taught, i was nice to all them. wanting not to treat them how those "experienced" teachers treated them. but they are impossible. lolz.. but of cos, i dun call them names in front of them, to reserve their pride.... but the hell.. they called me names in front of me thinking i dun understand them...Originally posted by rainee:Hmm, don't ever call them that leh...as a teacher, you have the power to encourage them to be a better student...if you tell them they are hopeless, how can they have confidence in their own ability? -
How old are those students you are teaching now? And you teaching in a school?Originally posted by starblue:these kids degrade themselves. seriously.. when i first taught, i was nice to all them. wanting not to treat them how those "experienced" teachers treated them. but they are impossible. lolz.. but of cos, i dun call them names in front of them, to reserve their pride.... but the hell.. they called me names in front of me thinking i dun understand them... -
secondary students... now school hols.. resuming when sch reopens.Originally posted by rainee:How old are those students you are teaching now? And you teaching in a school? -
Ah..no wonder you can post frequently these few daysOriginally posted by starblue:secondary students... now school hols.. resuming when sch reopens. -
actually, i'm still working.. lolz... surfing net during office hours... shhhhh....Originally posted by rainee:Ah..no wonder you can post frequently these few days -
haha me also...I am working OT since got pay raise, so want to make full use of itOriginally posted by starblue:actually, i'm still working.. lolz... surfing net during office hours... shhhhh....