But They Did Not Give Up

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But They Did Not

Give Up !

Engr. Robin C. RubinaQuality, Environment, Safety

and Health (QESH) Manager,

QESH Practit ioner & Trainer

Philippines


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Ever tried.

Ever failed.

No matter.

Try Again.

Fail again.Fail better.

~ Samuel Beckett


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• As a young man, he went to war a captain andreturned a private.

• Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman.

As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impracticaland temperamental to be a success.

• He turned to politics and was defeated in his first

try for the legislature, again defeated in his firstattempt to be nominated for congress, defeated inhis application to be commissioner of the General

Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial

election of 1858.


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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth Presidentof the United States, March 4, 1861 to April

15, 1865. During his term, he helpedpreserve the United States by leading thedefeat of the secessionist ConfederateStates of America in the American Civil

War. He introduced measures that resultedin the abolition of slavery, issuing hisEmancipation Proclamation in 1863 andpromoting the passage of the Thirteenth

Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865.


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• He failed sixth grade.

• He was subsequently defeated in everyelection for public office until he becamePrime Minister at the age of 62.

• He later wrote, "Never give in, never givein, never, never, never, never - in nothing,great or small, large or petty - never give

in except to convictions of honor andgood sense. Never, Never, Never, Nevergive up."


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• His teachers said he was "too stupid tolearn anything."

• He was fired from his first two jobs forbeing "non-productive."

• As an inventor, Hemade 1,000

unsuccessful attempts at inventing thelight bulb.

• When a reporter asked, "How did it feel tofail 1,000 times?" He replied, "I didn’t fail1,000 times. The light bulb was an

invention with 1,000 steps."


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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11,1847 – October 18, 1931) was an

American inventor and businessmanwho developed many devices thatgreatly influenced life around theworld, including the phonograph and along lasting light bulb. Dubbed "TheWizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper

reporter, he was one of the firstinventors to apply the principles ofmass production to the process ofinvention, and therefore is oftencredited with the creation of the firstindustrial research laboratory.

"Genius is one percentinspiration, ninety-nine percentperspiration." - Thomas AlvaEdison, Harper's Monthly

(September 1931)


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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April18, 1955) was a German-borntheoretical physicist.

He is best known for his theory ofrelativity and specifically mass-energyequivalence, E = mc2. Einsteinreceived the 1921 Nobel Prize in

Physics "for his services to TheoreticalPhysics, and especially for hisdiscovery of the law of thephotoelectric effect.


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• He was fired by a newspaper editor

because "he lacked imagination and hadno good ideas."

• He went bankrupt several times beforehe built a popular theme park.

• In fact, the proposed park was rejected

by the city of Anaheim on the groundsthat it would only attract riffraff.


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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American filmproducer, director, screenwriter, voice actor,animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.Disney is notable as one of the most influentialand innovative figures in the field ofentertainment during the twentieth century. Asthe co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney)

of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became oneof the best-known motion picture producers inthe world. He is also well-known as thenamesake for Disneyland and Walt DisneyWorld Resort theme parks in the United States,France, Japan and China.


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"Our greatest glory is

not in never falling but

in rising every time we

fall."

~ Confucius


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• He sold only one painting during hislife.

• And this to the sister of one of hisfriends for 400 francs(approximately $50).

• This didn't stop him from completingover 800 paintings.


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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March1853 – 29 July 1890) was a DutchPost-Impressionist artist. His paintings

and drawings include some of theworld's best known, most popular andmost expensive pieces.

The painting was the inspiration for Frenchcomposer Henri Dutilleux's orchestral workTimbres, Espace, Mouvement and for DonMcLean's song "Vincent", which is alsoknown by its opening words, "Starry, StarryNight."


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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Americanactor. He is best known for his performances as thetough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the StarWars film series, and the adventurous

archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones filmseries.

Ford has also been the star of many high-grossinghits Hollywood blockbusters such as Air Force Oneand The Fugitive, which have distanced him from hisfamous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles. At onepoint Ford had roles in the top five box-office hits ofall time, though his role in 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (as Elliot's school principal) was deletedfrom the final cut of the film. Five of his films havebeen inducted into the National Film Registry.


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• He was cut from his high school

basketball team• He was deemed too short to play atthat level


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Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17,1963) is a retired American professionalbasketball player. Widely considered one of

the greatest basketball players of all time, hebecame one of the most effectively marketedathletes of his generation and wasinstrumental in popularizing the NBA(National Basketball Association) around the

world in the 1980s and 1990s.


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"I've missed more than 9000 shots

in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games

26 times I've been trusted to

take the game winning shot ...

and missed.

I've failed over and over andover again in my life. That is

why I succeed."

~ Michael Jordan


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• One week after birth, he was put up for adoption by hisunmarried mother

• He graduated from high school and enrolled in ReedCollege in Portland, Oregon and dropped out after onlyone semester

• He started a company and became its Chairman• He lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola, to serve as

his CEO, challenging him, "Do you want to spend the restof your life selling sugared water, or do you want achance to change the world?“

• Some of his employees had described him as an erratic

and tempestuous manager and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and anannouncement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved him

• In mid-2004, he had been diagnosed with a malignant

tumor in his pancreas


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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (born February24, 1955) is the co-founder andCEO of Apple and was the CEO

of Pixar until its acquisition byDisney. He is currently thelargest Disney shareholder and amember of Disney's Board of

Directors. He is considered aleading figure in both thecomputer and entertainmentindustries

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