Achieving Ones Dreams A Celebrity Profile

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Achieving Ones Dreams!A Celebrity Profile

• Mr. Ham
• Greenwood High School

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Achieving Ones Dreams!

• What determines ones ability to achieve success?
• Money
• Fame
• Position
• Looks
• Intelligence
• Strength

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It All Comes Down to Matters of the Heart!
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• Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to
  be angry with the right person, to the right
  degree, at the right time, for the right purpose,
  and in the right way- this is not easy.
• Aristotle

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Famous People with Learning Disabilities

• Albert Einstein
• He did not speak until age 3.
• He was thought to be simple minded, until it was
  realized that he was able to achieve by
  visualizing rather than by the use of language.
• His work on relativity, which revolutionized
  modern physics, was created in his spare time.
• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
  achieved by understanding.

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Thomas Alva Edison

• He was unable to read until he was twelve years
  old and his writing skills were poor throughout
  his life.

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George Washington

• He was unable to spell throughout his life and
  his grammar usage was very poor.
• His brother suggested that perhaps surveying in
  the backwoods might be an appropriate career for
  young George.

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Woodrow Wilson

• President of the USA and Nelson Rockefeller, Vice
  President of USA, were both severely dyslexic.

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Tom Cruise

• Is unable to read due to severe dyslexia.
• He is able to memorize lines and perform on stage
  and screen.

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Harriet Tubman

• As a child he was struck on the head by an
  overseer.
• The blow fractured her skull and resulted in
  narcolepsy for the rest of her life.
• At the age of 29 she escaped from slavery and
  lead others to freedom throughout the course of
  her life.

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Abraham Lincoln

• At the age of twelve he fell off a horse while
  visiting a farm several hours from his Kentucky
  home.
• From that point forward he experienced periods of
  dazing off and completely being unaware of his
  surroundings.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• U.S. President (1882-1945)
• Due to polio, he was mostly confined to a
  wheelchair throughout most of his life.

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People with Dyslexia

• Albert Einstein
• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Charles Schwab
• Walt Disney
• George Burns
• Cher

• Jay Leno
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Danny Glover
• Greg Louganis
• General George Patton
• Winston Churchill
• Woodrow Wilson
• Nelson Rockefeller

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Stutters

• Mel Tillis, 1976 Country Music Entertainer of the
  Year
• James Earl Jones, over came stuttering by reading
  Shakespeare alone in a field
• Bruce Willis
• Charles 1, King from 1625-1649
• Charles Darwin

• Bob Love, 3x NBA All-Star and led Chicago Bulls
  in scoring for 7 consecutive seasons
• Walter Annenberg, founder of TV Guide Seventeen
• Clara Barton, founder of American Red Cross
• Marilyn Monroe

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Famous People with Epilepsy

• Lord Byron
• Charles Dickens
• Agatha Christie
• Alexander the Great
• Julius Caesar
• Socrates
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo

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Famous People who have Battled Depression

• Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
• Ned Beatty, actor
• C.E. Chaffin, writer poet
• John Daly, golf pro
• Gordon Summer (Sting), top 25 performers in 2001
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Barbara Bush, former 1st Lady
• Drew Carey

• Jim Carey
• Dick Clark
• Sheryl Crow
• Queen Elizabeth
• Anthony Hopkins
• Janet Jackson
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Boris Yeltsin, former President, Russia
• George Stephenopoulos

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Other Famous People with Learning Disabilities

• John F. Kennedy
• George C. Scott
• Tom Smothers
• Magic Johnson
• Carl Lewis
• Sylvester Stallone
• John Lennon
• Robert Kennedy
• Wright Brothers
• Thomas Thoreau

• George Bernard Shaw
• Beethoven
• Galileo
• Mozart
• Henry Winkler
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Robin Williams
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Dustin Hoffman
• Werner Von Braun, brains behind 1st generation of
  rocketry

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Everyone has misfortunes.Life is defined by how
we handle this misfortunes.

• 10 of the problem we cant control. However,
  it is the 90 that we can control that determines
  the outcome.
• Lack confidence
• Worry
• Become angry
• Blame others