Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He was assuredly devastated, but somehow this pushed him to practice and improve his skills. He went on to make his college team, the NBA, and become arguably the greatest player in history. He is quoted as saying,” I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Fail
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my carrer. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times. I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
Achievement
Michael Jordan led the Chicago buuls to six National Basketball Association championships and earned the NBA's most valuable PLayer Award five times. With five regular-season MVPs and three All-Star MVPs, Jordan became the most decorated player in the NBA.
Achievement
Michael Jordan led the Chicago buuls to six National Basketball Association championships and earned the NBA's most valuable PLayer Award five times. With five regular-season MVPs and three All-Star MVPs, Jordan became the most decorated player in the NBA.
Major Quotes
- The key to success is failure.
- I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. i've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, i've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Failure makes me work harder.
- I,ve never been afraid to fail.
- I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, as he should be, he was a founder! He was fired from was fired from his job with Apple, and then proceeded to fail at the next two companies he headed up. When he was asked to return to his job at Apple, he built it up to be the most successful company in America!
Fail
In 1985, less than 10 years after he founded Apple, Steve Jobs was (essentially) fired. He was out. At age 30, his life was flipped upside-down and he needed to move on from the only business he'd ever known. Jobs was forced to resign when CEO, Jon Sculley, felt Apple needed to reorganize and shift gears.
Achievement
Steve Jobs was a charis matic pioneer of the personal computer era. With Steve Wozniak, Jobs founded Apple Inc. in 1976 and transformed the company into a world leader in telecommunications. Widely considered a visionery and a genius, he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone.
Achievement
Steve Jobs was a charis matic pioneer of the personal computer era. With Steve Wozniak, Jobs founded Apple Inc. in 1976 and transformed the company into a world leader in telecommunications. Widely considered a visionery and a genius, he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone.
Major Quotes
- Don't let the noise of others'opinions drown out your own inner voice.
- Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- You can't connet the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will some how connect in your furture.
Walt Disney
When Walt Disney first started looking for work; he was rejected time after time. Many people telling him that he was not talented enough, that he was not cut out for this field. His brother had to get him his first job in the field. Despite all the negativity, and rejection, he persevered, and ended up with an animation empire by the end of his life.
Fail
Walt Disney is remembered for his many successes-for Mickey Mouse, for Donald Duck, for Disneyland. But he also saw his share of hard failures including a bankruptcy; a mental breakdown, a devasting strike, and the loss of control over his creation Oswald the lucky Rabbit. He discussed these failures frankly.
Achievement
Walt Disney as a film producer, maintains the record for the most Academy Awards earned by any individual, by winning 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was conferred with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an emmy Award, besides other honors. His various films Registry made by the oldest federal cultural institution called the libary of Congress.
Achievement
Walt Disney as a film producer, maintains the record for the most Academy Awards earned by any individual, by winning 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was conferred with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an emmy Award, besides other honors. His various films Registry made by the oldest federal cultural institution called the libary of Congress.
Major Quotes
- I like the impossible because there's less competition.
- You can design and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
- The different between winning and losing is often not quitting.
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg was rejected both times he applied to film school. This would have been enough to cause many to give up on this dream and take a different path, but not Steven. He has had one of the most successful and beloved careers of any Director in history. His films are revered as classics and cutting edge. On a side note, the school that rejected him ended up giving him an honorary degree year later!
Fail
Steven Spielberg got rejected from film school ... three times. Steven Spielberg was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Treater, Film and Television three times. He eventually attended another school, only to drop out and become a director before finishing.
Achievement
Steven Spielberg was an amateur filmmaker as a child. He went on to become the enormously successful and Academy Award-winning director of such films as schindler's List, The Color Purple, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrail, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln and Bridge of Spies.
Achievement
Steven Spielberg was an amateur filmmaker as a child. He went on to become the enormously successful and Academy Award-winning director of such films as schindler's List, The Color Purple, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrail, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln and Bridge of Spies.
Major Quotes
- Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single I've directed.
- Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what i think keeps me hungry.
- I've always been very hopeful which i guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that i've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world.
- I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for a living.
- You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield was rejected by 144 publishers before one finally bought the rights to Chicken Soup for the Soul. Their loss was definitely his and the one who took the chances gain. He is one of the most beloved authors, not to mention most successful, with his series of hope and inspiration. He has surpassed the sales and creativity goals that he has set for himself each time. Whenever someone has told him something was not possible, he simply proved them wrong through actions and belief in himself.
Fail
Jack Canfield was rejected 144 times before he found a publisher for his book, Chicken Soup for the Soul. When Jack told the publisher he wanted to sell 1.5 millon books in the first 18 months, the publisher laughed and said he'd be lucky to sell 20,000. That first book sold more than 8 million copies in America and 10 million copies around the world. Canfield's book brand is now a $1 Billon brand.
Achievement
Jack Canfield is an American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur. He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
Achievement
Jack Canfield is an American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur. He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
Major Quotes
- Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
- Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
- And so i wait. I wait for the tome to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that i can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
- Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.
- Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
History
J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame was divorced, without any funds, and living on government assistance when she wrote the first book. She was rejected by numerous publishers, until one finally took a chance on her. Even that publisher did not think there was great success to be made with her book. We all know how this story ends; she is now a Billionaire with books, merchandise, and theme parks that people flock to.
Fail
"I had failed on an epic scale... The fears that my parents had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew." These failures led her Rowings to a state of clinical depression and the verge of suicide.
Achievement
J.k Rowing has won many awards, including the Scottish Arts Council Grant, 1996; British Book Award, Children's Book of the Year, and Gold Winner, Rowntree Nestle Smarties Prise, Both 1997, Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award, the Young Telegraph Paperback of the Year, Sheffield Children's Book Award, and short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's literature, 1997-98, and ABBY Award, American Booksellers Association, 1999, both for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Whitebread Children's Book of the Year shortlist citation, and Gold Winner, Rowntree Nestle Smarties Prize, both 1998, Whitebread Prize for Children's Book of the Year, so many more that it's not even funny! J.k has three children, and has created an online "world" called Pottermore.
Achievement
J.k Rowing has won many awards, including the Scottish Arts Council Grant, 1996; British Book Award, Children's Book of the Year, and Gold Winner, Rowntree Nestle Smarties Prise, Both 1997, Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award, the Young Telegraph Paperback of the Year, Sheffield Children's Book Award, and short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's literature, 1997-98, and ABBY Award, American Booksellers Association, 1999, both for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Whitebread Children's Book of the Year shortlist citation, and Gold Winner, Rowntree Nestle Smarties Prize, both 1998, Whitebread Prize for Children's Book of the Year, so many more that it's not even funny! J.k has three children, and has created an online "world" called Pottermore.
Major Quotes
- If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
- It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- I solemnly swear that i am up to no good.
- It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as mush to stand up to our friends.
History
He dropped out, and his first company was a failure. However, he did not let this deter his belief in himself, and he persevered. He went on to form the company we now know as Microsoft, and was the youngest self-made billionaire we had ever seen. He always felt that his greatest lessons were not his successes, but rather his failures. Personally, I think his greatest success is the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation. They have donated most of what they have made to help people around the world.
Fail
He was going to pursure a law career, but he changed his plans later on, to his parents' disappointment. In 1975, he dropped out of college. But he didn,t do it because he couldn't deal with the work he'd have had to do - he did it because he wanted to work on a business with his partner, Allen.
Achievement
Bill Gates's founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen. He also cofounded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund global health and development programs.
Achievement
Bill Gates's founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen. He also cofounded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund global health and development programs.
Major Quotes
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
- Patience is a key element of success.
- The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It's harmful.
- Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player.
History
When we think if Albert Einstein, we think genius. What we do not think about is an individual who was predominantly non-verbal until the age of 9. Someone who had many behavioral issues in school, and was even expelled. This young rebel went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921, and is best known for his theory of relativity.
Fail
He was 16, two years younger than his fellow applicants. He did outstandingly well in physics and mathematics, but failed the non-science subjects, doing especially badly in French - so he was not accepted. So in that same year, he continued his studies at the Canton school in Aargau (also called Aarau).
Achievement
Albert Einstein is best known for his equation E=mc2, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, just in different forms. He is also known for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Achievement
Albert Einstein is best known for his equation E=mc2, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, just in different forms. He is also known for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Major Quotes
- Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity; and i'm not sure about the universe
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as through nothing is a miracle. The other is as through everything is a miracle.
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- If you can't explain it to a six year old you dont understand it yourself.
- If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
History
Stephen King was a troubled child, who lived in poverty, and with a lack of safety. He fell victim to drugs and alcohol as a means of coping with his unhappiness, and received a great deal of rejection early in his career. He made a conscious decision to focus his energies, and his coping into his work, and this change produced great rewards. To this day, he is one of the most prolific and successful writers of our time with many books and movies to his name.
Fail
His writing career went from strenght to strenght but in his personal life, he was facing demons of his own. During the 1980's Steven King suffered from severe addition to alcohol and other drugs. He has said that he can barely remember writing the bestselling horror,"Cujo".
Achievement
Stephen King is a 'New York Times'-bestselling novelist who made his name in the horror and fantasy genres with books like 'Carrie,' 'The Shining' and 'IT'. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.
Achievement
Stephen King is a 'New York Times'-bestselling novelist who made his name in the horror and fantasy genres with books like 'Carrie,' 'The Shining' and 'IT'. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.
Major Quotes
- Books are uniquely portable magic.
- If you read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
- Get busy living or get busy drying.
- Books are the perfect entertainment: no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spant. What i wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
- Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
History
Ludwig Van Beethoven once had a music teacher who told him that he was “hopeless.” Many do not know that he actually became deaf during his career, yet still managed to produce some of the most famous and noteworthy music of our time. He was able to “see” and “hear” the music in his head, and was someone who was revered and feared by his colleagues during his lifetime. His music lives on so many years later, which is the greatest testament to its beauty and perfection.
Fail
Beethoven was criticized for handling the volin awkwardly. Even his teachers called him "hopeless as a composer". His miseries never ended till he finally died: At the pinnacle of his career, Beethoven completely lost his hearing and yet he managed to write five of his greatest symphonies.
Achievement
A prolific composer who wrote for wealthy patrons and also earned money from public concerts, he wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and many chamber works including some ground-breaking string quartets. Beethoven's greatest Achievement was to raise instrumental music, hitherto considered inferior to vocal, to the highest plane of art. During the 18th century, music, being fundamentally nonimative, was ranked below literature and painting.
Achievement
A prolific composer who wrote for wealthy patrons and also earned money from public concerts, he wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and many chamber works including some ground-breaking string quartets. Beethoven's greatest Achievement was to raise instrumental music, hitherto considered inferior to vocal, to the highest plane of art. During the 18th century, music, being fundamentally nonimative, was ranked below literature and painting.
Major Quotes
- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
- Music is a higher revalation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
- Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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