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
he built 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 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their
first record audition forthe 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.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book
Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean
Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else
Get married."
She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
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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 Elvis Presley.
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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 an electrostatic paper-copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born
Prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years
old, she contracted 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 - Wilma Rudolph, went on
to win three Olympic gold medals.
A school teacher 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 went on to become Albert Einstein.