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December 20, 2004

Opinion is Not Fact

I find it both comforting and important to remember:

Decca Recording Company turned down the Beatles because, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."

A Grand Ole Opry manager offered Elvis these words after one performance, "You ain't going no where son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

At ten, Albert Einstein was told by his teacher, "You will never amount to much."

D.H. Lawrence found these words in a rejection letter, "For your own good do not publish this book." The book was Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Rodin failed three times to get into art school.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen received 33 rejections before finding a publisher for Chicken Soup For the Soul.

I've learned to keep trying, keep believing, and keep working. I've found one key to winning at working in this Japanese proverb: Fall seven times, stand up eight.

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Posted by Nan Russell at December 20, 2004 10:13 PM