Dream the Impossible Dream

7/31/2019 Dream the Impossible Dream

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Failures are the stepping stones to success!!!


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A school teacher scolded a boy

for not paying attention to his

mathematics and for not being

able to solve simple problems.

She told him that you wouldnot become anybody in life.


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"A person who never made

a mistake never tried

anything new."

The boy was Albert Einstein


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A candidate for a news

broadcasters postwas rejected

by officials since his voice was

not fit for a news broadcaster.

He was also told that with hisobnoxiously long name, he

would never be famous.


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"No one can gothrough life

withouttheir

share of knocks.

I am no differentfrom any other."

He is Amitabh Bachchan


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A small boy - the fifth amongst seven

siblings of a poor father, was selling

newspapers in a small village to earn

his living. He was not exceptionally

smart at school but was fascinated by

religion and rockets. The first rockethe built crashed. A missile that he

built crashed multiple times and he

was made a butt of ridicule. He is the

person to have scripted the SpaceOdyssey of India single-handedly.


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"A leader

should know

how to managefailure."

He was Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam


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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of

the Blue Book Modelling Agency told

modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker,

"You'd better learn secretarial work

or else get married." She went on.


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"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made

a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said,

'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."

She became Marilyn Monroe


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When he invented the light bulb, he triedover 2000 experiments before he got it to

work. A young reporter asked him how it

felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never

failed once. I invented the light bulb. It

just happened to be a 2000-step process."


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"Many of life's failures

are people who did

not realize how closethey were to successwhen they gave up."

He was Thomas Edison


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When he invented the telephone

in 1876, it did not ring off the hook

with calls from potential backers.

After making a demonstration call,

President Rutherford Hayes said,"That's an amazing invention, but

who would ever want to seeone of them?"


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"When one door closes,

another opens; but we

often look so long and

so regretfully upon the

closed door that we do

not see the one whichhas opened for us."

He was Alexander Graham Bell


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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations,

including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long

years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company,to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper copying process.

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"Several times I decided to drop the idea completely. But each

time I returned to try again. I was thoroughly convinced that

the invention was too promising to be dormant."

Haloid became Xerox Corporation

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A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was

doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet

fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal legbrace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it.


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By 13 she had developed arhythmic walk, which doctors

said was a miracle. That same

year she decided to become a

runner. She entered a race and

came in last. For the next few

years every race she entered,she came in last. Everyone told

her to quit, but she kept on

running. One day she actually

won a race. And then another.

From then on she won every

race she entered.

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"I ran and ran and ran every

day, and I acquired this sense

of determination, this sense

of spirit thatI would never,

never give up, no matter

what else happened."

Wilma Rudolph went on to win three Olympic gold medals

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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the

executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed.

While turning down this group of musicians, One executive said, " We don't liketheir sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."

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Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting

my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask

you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am

right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance

that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.

The group was called The Beatles


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In 1954, Jimmy Denny,

manager of the Grand

Ole Opry, fired a singer

after one performance.

He told him, "You ain'tgoing nowhere son. You

ought to go back todriving a truck".

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"Adversity is sometimes

hard upon a man; but

for one man who canstand prosperity, there

are a hundred that willstand adversity."

He went on to become Elvis Presley

The Moral of the abo e


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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet only through experiences

of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambitioninspired and success achieved."

The Moral of the above


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You gain strength, experience and

confidence by every experience

where you really stop to look fear

in the face. You must do the thingyou cannot do. And remember,

the finest steel gets strengthenthrough the hottest furnace.

To dream the impossible dream


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To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the un-rightable wrong

To be better far than you are

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest, to follow that star

No matter how hopeless,

No matter how far

To fight for the right

Without question or pauseTo be willing to march into hell

For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will be peaceful and calm

When I'm laid to my rest

And the world would be better for this

That one man scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable star

Dream the Impossible Dream

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