7 People Who Wouldn’t Listen

[ROCKYROAD]

Sometimes other people try to set limits for us. They tell us what we can and can’t do, and especially what we aren’t good at. Read these examples, then think about people who try to set limits for you. Maybe they’re right…but more likely they’re wrong.

1. After Michel Jordan lost the chance to be north Carolina high school player of the year, he was told his teachers to go into math, “where the money is” Jordan is now a basketball legend and one of the world’s wealthiest men.

2. The editor of the San Francisco Examiner told a young writer, “I’m sorry; Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use to English language.” In 1907, Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

3. The head of a drama school advised an aspiring actress to “try another profession” any other.” The actress’s name was Lucille Ball. She went on to star in movies, radio shows, and the hit TV series I love Lucy, which won five Emmy Awards.

4. The manger of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, fired a singer after one performance, saying, “You ain’t goin nowhere…son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.” The singer was Elvis Presley.

5. A young newspaper staffer was fired by his editor because he had “no good ideas” and he “doodled too much.” His name was Walt Disney.

6. When Robert Jarvik was rejected by every American medical school he applied to, he went to Italy and attended medical school there for two years. He later returned to the states, earned his M.D from the University of Utah-and designed the first permanent, totally artificial hearty to be implanted in human.

7. Madeleine L’Engle’s book a wrinkle in time was rejected by almost every major publisher before Farrar, Straus, and Giroux agreed to take it-after warning that the book would probably not sell. It won the Newbery medal in 1963 and is now one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense
of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”

[Dionisia]

Great post! Very interesting!! As a high school teacher, these are great examples to bring into my classroom!!
Thanks!!

[rolandocarey9682]

Worth to read

[aliensong]

"A young newspaper staffer was fired by his editor because he had “no good ideas” and he “doodled too much.” His name was Walt Disney." SADLY !

[secretchef]

Thanks for this. Really a good one..

[afteraithe]

Hey thanks!

This just goes to show that you dont want to give up on your dreams. Just keep going, you'll make it if you try hard enough.