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In the 60's, a well-known musician and drama actor brought
his son to All India Radio for audition. After the recording, AIR
rejected him saying his voice was not suited for broadcasting.
Years later, it is a well-known fact that AIR cannot have a day
without broadcasting his voice. The son was none other than our KJ
Jesudas.
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 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 the most popular singer in America: Elvis
Presley.
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 use 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 seven long years
of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New
York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention
and process. Haloid became the ‘Xerox Corporation’ we
know today.
She was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and
her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted
double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed
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, who was told
she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold
medals!!! She was Wilma Rudolph !!
The Moral
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain
strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you
really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you
cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the
hottest furnace. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who
NEVER QUITS! In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once!
Let’s live life to the fullest and give it our extreme
best.
Have a blissful life...
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