Champion is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
anjanesh
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1679
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:52 pm
Location: Mumbai, India

Champion is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS

Post by anjanesh »

I just got this in my mail thought it would be worth posting it here.

Champion is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS !
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 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.

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 named 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 - an electrostatic paper-copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Wilma Rudolph 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.

In 1971 one lean person entered B R Chopra studio with a hope of becoming an Actor, He was told by B R Chopra that he better try in radio station as an announcer but this Person never gave up and became THE ACTOR OF MILLENNIUM in Indian Cinema know as BIG B, Amitabh Bachhan.

We never know what we fail to identify today can be vision of tomorrow. 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....
The bottom line is Champion is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS !
Grim...
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1445
Joined: Tue May 18, 2004 5:32 am
Location: London, UK

Post by Grim... »

In 2004 an email flew round the world, claiming plenty of facts, around 2% of which can be assumed to be true.
qads
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1199
Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2002 10:02 am
Location: Brisbane

Post by qads »

lol
d3ad1ysp0rk
Forum Donator
Posts: 1661
Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:31 pm
Location: Maine, USA

Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

Grim... wrote:In 2004 an email flew round the world, claiming plenty of facts, around 2% of which can be assumed to be true.
How many can you disprove?
Grim...
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1445
Joined: Tue May 18, 2004 5:32 am
Location: London, UK

Post by Grim... »

Probably a fair number, if I could be bothered.

But really, it was just another way of saying "Why oh why forward spam?"
User avatar
evilmonkey
Forum Regular
Posts: 823
Joined: Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:24 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada

Post by evilmonkey »

You kow, that is pretty motivating. The way I see it, if at least one person on this board can be motivated not to quit whatever they're doing by Anjanesh's post, then "forwarding spam" was worth it.
Grim...
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1445
Joined: Tue May 18, 2004 5:32 am
Location: London, UK

Post by Grim... »

Do you feel that way about the one person who gets a penis enlargement?
User avatar
xisle
Forum Contributor
Posts: 249
Joined: Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:53 pm

Post by xisle »

IMHO - people that preach motivation generally have some other 'motive'.
User avatar
evilmonkey
Forum Regular
Posts: 823
Joined: Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:24 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada

Post by evilmonkey »

Grim... wrote:Do you feel that way about the one person who gets a penis enlargement?
This isn't exactly a penis enlargement email. That stuff is just bull****.
xisle wrote:IMHO - people that preach motivation generally have some other 'motive'.
I agree, although I'm not sure that this was Anjanesh's intention of posting this here.

This email isn't trying to sell anything, convince you to buy anything, or the like. Why the bashing?
d3ad1ysp0rk
Forum Donator
Posts: 1661
Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:31 pm
Location: Maine, USA

Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

I agree. If it ended with "Now with all this new motivation, send $100 to your local salvation army", I'd be a bit annoyed, but it doesnt.
Post Reply