"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.” -Leonardo da Vinci (taken from the Devotioanl: God always has a plan B)
If you have recently bitten into a bitter mouthful of disappointment, don’t let it ruin your appetite for life. You are in good company. Consider the following examples:
NBA superstar Michael Jordan was once cut from his high school basketball team.
After his first audition, screen legend Fred Astaire received the following assessment from an MGM executive: “Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”
Best-selling author Max Lucado had his first book rejected by 14 publishers before finding one that was willing to give him a chance.
A so-called football expert once said of two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Vince Lombardi, “He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lacks motivation.
Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he lacked ideas. Later, he went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
Upon his election as U.S President, Abraham Lincoln was called “a baboon” by a newspaper in Illinois, his home state. The paper went on to say that the American people “would be better off if he were assassinated.
A young Burt Reynolds was once told he couldn’t act. At the same audition, his pal Clint Eastwood was told he would never make it in the movies because his Adam’s apple was too big.
Further, failure can actually enrich you as a person, build your character, and sharpen your perspective. Andre Agassi, after winning easily in the first round of a U.S Open tennis tourney, was asked if he felt bad for destroying his opponent. “No,” he said, “you don’t cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. I promise you, it’s all part of what makes you who you are down the road. And if a match is getting blown out one way or the other, you’ve got to learn from it, and you’ve got to understand it for what it is. I’ve been on the other [losing] side. I wouldn’t want to cheat anybody of that experience.”
So, learn from failure, from rejection. Let them fuel your determination. And hang on to those negative letters, reports, and evaluations. You might want to frame them someday. added 4/14/13
NBA superstar Michael Jordan was once cut from his high school basketball team.After his first audition, screen legend Fred Astaire received the following assessment from an MGM executive: “Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”
Best-selling author Max Lucado had his first book rejected by 14 publishers before finding one that was willing to give him a chance.
A so-called football expert once said of two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Vince Lombardi, “He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lacks motivation.
Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he lacked ideas. Later, he went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
Upon his election as U.S President, Abraham Lincoln was called “a baboon” by a newspaper in Illinois, his home state. The paper went on to say that the American people “would be better off if he were assassinated.
A young Burt Reynolds was once told he couldn’t act. At the same audition, his pal Clint Eastwood was told he would never make it in the movies because his Adam’s apple was too big.
Further, failure can actually enrich you as a person, build your character, and sharpen your perspective. Andre Agassi, after winning easily in the first round of a U.S Open tennis tourney, was asked if he felt bad for destroying his opponent. “No,” he said, “you don’t cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. I promise you, it’s all part of what makes you who you are down the road. And if a match is getting blown out one way or the other, you’ve got to learn from it, and you’ve got to understand it for what it is. I’ve been on the other [losing] side. I wouldn’t want to cheat anybody of that experience.”
So, learn from failure, from rejection. Let them fuel your determination. And hang on to those negative letters, reports, and evaluations. You might want to frame them someday. added 4/14/13
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