FAMOUS FAILURES

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FAMOUS FAILURES

• Dr. Milton E. Larson, Humbling Cases for Career
  Counselors,
• Phi Delta Kappan, February 1973, Volume LIV, No.
  6 374

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• Creative and
• imaginative people
• are often not recognized
• by their peers.
• History is full of examples.

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A book editor said

• that she could never write anything with popular
  appeal.

4
His teachers told him

• he was too stupid to learn anything.

Thomas Edison
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A music teacher once said

• As a composer he is hopeless.

Ludwig van Beethoven
6
A newspaper fired him.

• because he had no good ideas.

Walt Disney
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He flunked out of school

• and even his private tutor gave up on him.

Pablo Picasso
8
His parents believed...

• he was retarded

because he thought so long
before he answered a question.
Albert Einstein
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• A small set-back
• becomes a failure
• only when you dont
• TRY AGAIN!