Non SMS Stuff

[dkaile 1,051]

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark - Stephen Hawkins

[I_C_U 10]

A puzzle:

May be some member might be aware of this one. Still since I was not able to come up with a solution even after pondering on it for a week (whenever I was free), I thought it appropriate to post it here. (I finally gave up and headed to the solution page. )

The Puzzle goes like this--

There is a rope 1 meter long. If you set fire at one end of the rope it burns completely in 60 minutes. So you have the rope and a match-box.

Using this you want to measure 30 minutes and you don't have a watch.

The twist is that the rope is pretty uneven. At some place it is fat and at others it is thin. So that it doesn't burn out evenly. Its like half of the rope burns in first 10 minutes but the other half takes up 50 minutes to burn. So how will you measure 30 minutes?

[digitalnirvana 646]

Set fire at both ends it will burn in 30 minutes.

[abhi.r 95]

take both the ends fold it such a way that both meet at center.

Then lit the rope from any one end... the new rope lenght (0.5m) will burn in 30 min.

First half (0.25m)=> (10min/2) = 5 min

Second half (0.25m)=> (50min/2) = 25 min

Total = 5+25 = 30 mins

[I_C_U 10]

^^^

may not work as the rope may burn unevenly then.

Dipan is sureshot.

One more now. (Logic based)

There are 2 villages.

1st Satyapur: Each person of the village speak only the truth

2nd Asatyapur: Each person of the village always lies.

You are driving on the way. You reach the centre of this Y-shaped road. There are no signboards but it is known that one road will lead to Satyapur and another to asatyapur. There is one man sitting at the crossing. It is not known from which village out of the two is he from.

In just 1 question to the man you need to find out the way to Satyapur. What will you ask?

[digitalnirvana 646]

My answer was wrong found the correct by googling so will not post.

Edited June 7, 2011 by dipanlahiri

[KumaarShah 143]

"OUGH" in words:- COUGH,DOUGH,PLOUGH. There are a few more with sounds fitting into one of these three categories.

I think a retired English teacher was bored.

THIS IS GREAT!

Read all the way to the end................

This took a lot of work to put together!

You think English is easy??

1) The bandage was

wound

around the

wound.

2) The farm was used to

produce produce

.

3) The dump was so full that it had to

refuse

more

refuse

.

4) We must

polish

the

Polish

furniture.

5) He could

lead

if he would get the

lead

out.

6) The soldier decided to

desert

his dessert in the

desert.

7) Since there is no time like the

present

, he thought it was time to

present

the

present

.

8) A

bass

was painted on the head of the

bass

drum.

9) When shot at, the

dove dove

into the bushes.

10) I did not

object

to the

object.

11) The insurance was

invalid

for the

invalid.

12) There was a

row

among the oarsmen about how to

row

.

13) They were too

close

to the door to

close

it.

14) The buck

does

funny things when the

does

are present.

15) A seamstress and a

sewer

fell down into a

sewer

line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his

sow

to

sow.

17) The

wind

was too strong to

wind

the sail.

18) Upon seeing the

tear

in the painting I shed a

tear..

19) I had to

subject

the

subject

to a series of tests.

20) How can I

intimate

this to my most

intimate

friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig..

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this ..

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is

'UP.'

It's easy to understand

UP

,

meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake

UP

?

At a meeting, why does a topic come

UP

?

Why do we speak

UP

and why are the officers

UP

for election and why is it

UP

to the secretary to write

UP

a report?

We call

UP

our friends.

And we use it to brighten

UP

a room, polish

UP

the silver; we warm

UP

the leftovers and clean

UP

the kitchen.

We lock

UP

the house and some guys fix

UP

the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning.

People stir

UP

trouble, line

UP

for tickets, work

UP

an appetite, and think

UP

excuses.

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed

UP

is special

.

A drain must be opened

UP

because it is stopped

UP

.

We open

UP

a store in the morning but we close it

UP

at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed

UP

about

UP

!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of

UP

,

look the word

UP

in the dictionary.

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes

UP

almost 1/4th of the page and can add

UP

to about thirty definitions.

If you are

UP

to it, you might try building

UP

a list of the many ways

UP

is used.

It will take

UP

a lot of your time, but if you don't give

UP

,

you may wind

UP

with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding

UP

.

When the sun comes out we say it is clearing

UP

.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things

UP

.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry

UP

.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it

UP

,

for now my time is

UP

,

so........it is time to shut

UP

!

Now it's

UP

to you what you do with this.

Edited June 16, 2011 by KumaarShah

[rajanmehta 4,056]

Brilliant Kumarbhai! Thanks for this mood UP lifting post(Where's the Envelope?) in this thread (Where's the cloth?). UP side of it is that... It's English after all..

Edited June 16, 2011 by rajanmehta

[Genius 817]

[KumaarShah 143]

Brilliant Kumarbhai! Thanks for this mood UP lifting post(Where's the Envelope?) in this thread (Where's the cloth?). UP side of it is that... It's English after all..

That was a good one, Rajan..... Yes its English after all

[thackervijay 16]

kumaarshah, brilliant work awesome.thankyou for sharing this with us.

[abhi.r 95]

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[csmart 472]

How Americans have changed English...!

Relevant to those above forty

When I was 10 -

rubber meant eraser,

*** meant donkey,

gay meant happy,

straight meant linear,

making out meant 'logical detection',

Cock meant rooster,

pussy meant cat,

stag meant a male deer,

prick meant a jab,

poke meant a nudge,

chick meant a baby hen,

screw meant a carpenter's implement,

oral was often used by doctors,

AC-DC referred to current flow,

and a Tit was always for Tat..........!!

Damn!

[Rahul Always 87]

I loved the RIM blackberry cartoon! Well is that not what some car companies try to do? Am not pointing fingers at anyone

[csmart 472]

सरकारी नाई ने बाल काटते समय कपिल सिब्बल से पूछा.. साहब यह स्विस बैंक वाला क्या लफड़ा है... सिब्बल चिल्लाये अबे तू बाल काट रहा है या इन्क्वारी कर रहा है .. ... नाई बोला सॉरी अब नहीं पूछूँगा... अगली बार नाई ने चिदम्बरम साहब से पूछा यह काला धन क्या होता है.. ...चिदम्बरम चिल्लाये और बोले तुम हमसे ये सावल क्यूँ पूछता है.. अगले दिन नाई से सी बी आई की टीम ने पूछताछ की... क्या तुम बाबा या अन्ना के एजेंट हो... नाई बोला नहीं साबजी.. तो फिर तुम बाल काटते वक़्त काग्रेस के नेताओं फालतू के सवाल क्यूँ करते हो..... नाई बोला साहब ना जाने क्यूँ स्विस बैंक और काले धन के नाम पर इन कांग्रेसियों के बाल खड़े हो जाते है और मुझे बाल काटने में आसानी हो जाती है....इसलिए पूछता रहता हूँ

Translation:

While cutting hair, a barber asked Kapil Sibal, "Sir, what is this swiss bank issue?".

Kapil Sibal got angry and shouted, "thats none of your job. cut hair without making any inquiry."

Barber: Sorry sir.

Next day, Chidambaram came.

Barber: Sir, What is this black money?

Chidambaram also got angry and said: Don't ask such question and do your job quietly.

Next day, CBI started inquiry. they asked the barber, "Are you agent of Baba or Anna? why are you asking inquiring about black money swiss bank account while cutting hair of congress leaders?

Barber: Sir, when I ask such questions to congress leaders, it makes my job easier as their hair raise immediately.

Edited July 29, 2011 by csmart

[Rahul Always 87]

Nice one Chirag!!!! A good start to the day!

[Rahul Always 87]

The Bathtub Test

During a visit to the mental hospital, I asked the Director 'How do you determine whether or not a patient should be admitted to the hospital.'

'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we give a

teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him to empty the bathtub.'

'Oh, I understand,' I said. 'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'

'No.' said the Director, 'A normal person would pull the drain plug. Well....... Do you want a bed near the window?'

[Rahul Always 87]

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat at his feet. He held up a sign which said.."I am blind. Please help me". There were only a few coins in his hat.

A man who passed by saw the boy. He took some coins from his pocket and put them in the hat. He then had a look at the sign and then took it from the boy. He wrote a few words. He put the sign back so that everyone could see. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon, the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were going. The blind boy recognised the foot steps and asked "Sir, are you the one who changed the sign for me? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different manner. What I said was...Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it....."

Moral... Be creative, Be innovative, Learn to think different!

Edited July 29, 2011 by rahulsid

[Rahul Always 87]

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time. He cracked the same joke again & again, when there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said,

"When u can't laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again."

[dkaile 1,051]

"And where do you think you are going at this time of night?" The policeman asked.

"I'm on my way to a lecture about the effects of alcohol and drug abuse on the human body. " The drunk slurs

"Really" the policeman asks.

"And who is going to give a lecture at this time of night?"

"My Wife. "

[Honest 836]

[b]सरकारी नाई ने बाल काटते समय कपिल सिब्बल से पूछा.. साहब यह स्विस बैंक वाला क्या लफड़ा है... सिब्बल चिल्लाये अबे तू बाल काट रहा है या इन्क्वारी कर रहा है .. ... नाई बोला सॉरी अब नहीं पूछूँगा... अगली बार नाई ने चिदम्बरम साहब से पूछा यह काला धन क्या होता है.. ...[/b]

CM Bhai.....ye toh mujhe Sholay wala Hariram Nai lagta hai.....(Jailor Ka Jasoos).

[Rahul Always 87]

I loved this one which is why I am posting it here. Something really touching

A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.

After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.

When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.

When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'

'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. 'Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked.

Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up.'The man gestured, and the gate began to open.

'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveller asked.

'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.'

The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.

After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence.

As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.

'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?'

'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.'

'How about my friend here?' the traveller gestured to the dog.

'There should be a bowl by the pump.'

They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveller filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog. When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.

'What do you call this place?' the traveller asked.

'This is Heaven,' he answered.

'Well, that's confusing,' the traveller said. 'The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.'

'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Oh no , that's hell.'

'Doesn't it make you angry when they use your name like that?'

'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.'

Soooo...

Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word.

Maybe this will explain. When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You forward jokes. When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward jokes. When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how, you forward jokes.

Also to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for,guess what you get?

A forwarded joke.

So, next time if you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.

You are all welcome @ my water bowl anytime!

[Genius 817]

I read it and told it to my children, its great to read and tells us these small things in our daily life are not supposed to stop us.

50 Famously Successful People Who Failed At First

February 16th, 2010

Not everyone who's on top today got there with success after success. More often than not, those who history best remembers were faced with numerous obstacles that forced them to work harder and show more determination than others. Next time you're feeling down about your failures in college or in a career, keep these fifty famous people in mind and remind yourself that sometimes failure is just the first step towards success.

Business Gurus

These businessmen and the companies they founded are today known around the world, but as these stories show, their beginnings weren't always smooth.

1. Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn't an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.
   
2. R. H. Macy: Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didn't always have it easy. Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City.
   
3. F. W. Woolworth: Some may not know this name today, but Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S. Before starting his own business, young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the sense needed to do so.
   
4. Soichiro Honda: The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.
   
5. Akio Morita: You may not have heard of Morita but you've undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony's first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn't cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.
   
6. Bill Gates: Gates didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn't work, Gates' later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.
   
7. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.
   
8. Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.
   Scientists and Thinkers
   These people are often regarded as some of the greatest minds of our century, but they often had to face great obstacles, the ridicule of their peers and the animosity of society.
   
9. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein's name as synonymous with genius, but he didn't always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
   
10. Charles Darwin: In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a medical career and was often chastised by his father for being lazy and too dreamy. Darwin himself wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Perhaps they judged too soon, as Darwin today is well-known for his scientific studies.
    
11. Robert Goddard: Goddard today is hailed for his research and experimentation with liquid-fueled rockets, but during his lifetime his ideas were often rejected and mocked by his scientific peers who thought they were outrageous and impossible. Today rockets and space travel don't seem far-fetched at all, due largely in part to the work of this scientist who worked against the feelings of the time.
    
12. Isaac Newton: Newton was undoubtedly a genius when it came to math, but he had some failings early on. He never did particularly well in school and when put in charge of running the family farm, he failed miserably, so poorly in fact that an uncle took charge and sent him off to Cambridge where he finally blossomed into the scholar we know today.
    
13. Socrates: Despite leaving no written records behind, Socrates is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Classical era. Because of his new ideas, in his own time he was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and was sentenced to death. Socrates didn't let this stop him and kept right on, teaching up until he was forced to poison himself.
    
14. Robert Sternberg: This big name in psychology received a C in his first college introductory psychology class with his teacher telling him that, "there was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another." Sternberg showed him, however, graduating from Stanford with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa and eventually becoming the President of the American Psychological Association.
    Inventors
    These inventors changed the face of the modern world, but not without a few failed prototypes along the way.
    
15. Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was "too stupid to learn anything." Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.
    
16. Orville and Wilbur Wright: These brothers battled depression and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.
    Public Figures
    From politicians to talk show hosts, these figures had a few failures before they came out on top.
    
17. Winston Churchill: This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom wasn't always as well regarded as he is today. Churchill struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62.
    
18. Abraham Lincoln: While today he is remembered as one of the greatest leaders of our nation, Lincoln's life wasn't so easy. In his youth he went to war a captain and returned a private (if you're not familiar with military ranks, just know that private is as low as it goes.) Lincoln didn't stop failing there, however. He started numerous failed business and was defeated in numerous runs he made for public office.
    
19. Oprah Winfrey: Most people know Oprah as one of the most iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in the world. Oprah faced a hard road to get to that position, however, enduring a rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including being fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for tv."
    
20. Harry S. Truman: This WWI vet, Senator, Vice President and eventual President eventually found success in his life, but not without a few missteps along the way. Truman started a store that sold silk shirts and other clothing–seemingly a success at first–only go bankrupt a few years later.
    
21. **** Cheney: This recent Vice President and businessman made his way to the White House but managed to flunk out of Yale University, not once, but twice. Former President George W. Bush joked with Cheney about this fact, stating, "So now we know –if you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president."
    Hollywood Types
    These faces ought to be familiar from the big screen, but these actors, actresses and directors saw their fair share of rejection and failure before they made it big.
    
22. Jerry Seinfeld: Just about everybody knows who Seinfeld is, but the first time the young comedian walked on stage at a comedy club, he looked out at the audience, froze and was eventually jeered and booed off of the stage. Seinfeld knew he could do it, so he went back the next night, completed his set to laughter and applause, and the rest is history.
    
23. Fred Astaire: In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." Astaire went on to become an incredibly successful actor, singer and dancer and kept that note in his Beverly Hills home to remind him of where he came from.
    
24. Sidney Poitier: After his first audition, Poitier was told by the casting director, "Why don't you stop wasting people's time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?" Poitier vowed to show him that he could make it, going on to win an Oscar and become one of the most well-regarded actors in the business.
    
25. Jeanne Moreau: As a young actress just starting out, this French actress was told by a casting director that she was simply not pretty enough to make it in films. He couldn't have been more wrong as Moreau when on to star in nearly 100 films and win numerous awards for her performances.
    
26. Charlie Chaplin: It's hard to imagine film without the iconic Charlie Chaplin, but his act was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because they felt it was a little too nonsensical to ever sell.
    
27. Lucille Ball: During her career, Ball had thirteen Emmy nominations and four wins, also earning the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors. Before starring in I Love Lucy, Ball was widely regarded as a failed actress and a B movie star. Even her drama instructors didn't feel she could make it, telling her to try another profession. She, of course, proved them all wrong.
    
28. Harrison Ford: In his first film, Ford was told by the movie execs that he simply didn't have what it takes to be a star. Today, with numerous hits under his belt, iconic portrayals of characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and a career that stretches decades, Ford can proudly show that he does, in fact, have what it takes.
    
29. Marilyn Monroe: While Monroe's star burned out early, she did have a period of great success in her life. Despite a rough upbringing and being told by modeling agents that she should instead consider being a secretary, Monroe became a pin-up, model and actress that still strikes a chord with people today.
    
30. Oliver Stone: This Oscar-winning filmmaker began his first novel while at Yale, a project that eventually caused him to fail out of school. This would turn out to be a poor decision as the the text was rejected by publishers and was not published until 1998, at which time it was not well-received. After dropping out of school, Stone moved to Vietnam to teach English, later enlisting in the army and fighting in the war, a battle that earning two Purple Hearts and helped him find the inspiration for his later work that often center around war.
    Writers and Artists
    We've all heard about starving artists and struggling writers, but these stories show that sometimes all that work really does pay off with success in the long run.
    
31. Vincent Van Gogh: During his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only one painting, and this was to a friend and only for a very small amount of money. While Van Gogh was never a success during his life, he plugged on with painting, sometimes starving to complete his over 800 known works. Today, they bring in hundreds of millions.
    
32. Emily ****inson: Recluse and poet Emily ****inson is a commonly read and loved writer. Yet in her lifetime she was all but ignored, having fewer than a dozen poems published out of her almost 1,800 completed works.
    
33. Theodor Seuss Giesel: Today nearly every child has read The Cat in the Hat or Green Eggs and Ham, yet 27 different publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
    
34. Charles Schultz: Schultz's Peanuts comic strip has had enduring fame, yet this cartoonist had every cartoon he submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff. Even after high school, Schultz didn't have it easy, applying and being rejected for a position working with Walt Disney.
    
35. Steven Spielberg: While today Spielberg's name is synonymous with big budget, he was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He eventually attended school at another location, only to drop out to become a director before finishing. Thirty-five years after starting his degree, Spielberg returned to school in 2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.
    
36. Stephen King: The first book by this author, the iconic thriller Carrie, received 30 rejections, finally causing King to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, and the rest is history, with King now having hundreds of books published the distinction of being one of the best-selling authors of all time.
    
37. Zane Grey: Incredibly popular in the early 20th century, this adventure book writer began his career as a dentist, something he quickly began to hate. So, he began to write, only to see rejection after rejection for his works, being told eventually that he had no business being a writer and should given up. It took him years, but at 40, Zane finally got his first work published, leaving him with almost 90 books to his name and selling over 50 million copies worldwide.
    
38. J. K. Rowling: Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.
    
39. Monet: Today Monet's work sells for millions of dollars and hangs in some of the most prestigious institutions in the world. Yet during his own time, it was mocked and rejected by the artistic elite, the Paris Salon. Monet kept at his impressionist style, which caught on and in many ways was a starting point for some major changes to art that ushered in the modern era.
    
40. Jack London: This well-known American author wasn't always such a success. While he would go on to publish popular novels like White Fang and The Call of the Wild, his first story received six hundred rejection slips before finally being accepted.
    
41. Louisa May Alcott: Most people are familiar with Alcott's most famous work, Little Women. Yet Alcott faced a bit of a battle to get her work out there and was was encouraged to find work as a servant by her family to make ends meet. It was her letters back home during her experience as a nurse in the Civil War that gave her the first big break she needed.
    Musicians
    While their music is some of the best selling, best loved and most popular around the world today, these musicians show that it takes a whole lot of determination to achieve success.
    
42. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mozart began composing at the age of five, writing over 600 pieces of music that today are lauded as some of the best ever created. Yet during his lifetime, Mozart didn't have such an easy time, and was often restless, leading to his dismissal from a position as a court musician in Salzberg. He struggled to keep the support of the aristocracy and died with little to his name.
    
43. Elvis Presley: As one of the best-selling artists of all time, Elvis has become a household name even years after his death. But back in 1954, Elvis was still a nobody, and Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling him, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
    
44. Igor Stravinsky: In 1913 when Stravinsky debuted his now famous Rite of Spring, audiences rioted, running the composer out of town. Yet it was this very work that changed the way composers in the 19th century thought about music and cemented his place in musical history.
    
45. The Beatles: Few people can deny the lasting power of this super group, still popular with listeners around the world today. Yet when they were just starting out, a recording company told them no. The were told "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out," two things the rest of the world couldn't have disagreed with more.
    
46. Ludwig van Beethoven: In his formative years, young Beethoven was incredibly awkward on the violin and was often so busy working on his own compositions that he neglected to practice. Despite his love of composing, his teachers felt he was hopeless at it and would never succeed with the violin or in composing. Beethoven kept plugging along, however, and composed some of the best-loved symphonies of all time–five of them while he was completely deaf.
    Athletes
    While some athletes rocket to fame, others endure a path fraught with a little more adversity, like those listed here.
    
47. Michael Jordan: Most people wouldn't believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. Luckily, Jordan didn't let this setback stop him from playing the game and he has stated, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
    
48. Stan Smith: This tennis player was rejected from even being a lowly ball boy for a Davis Cup tennis match because event organizers felt he was too clumsy and uncoordinated. Smith went on to prove them wrong, showcasing his not-so-clumsy skills by winning Wimbledon, U. S. Open and eight Davis Cups.
    
49. Babe Ruth: You probably know Babe Ruth because of his home run record (714 during his career), but along with all those home runs came a pretty hefty amount of strikeouts as well (1,330 in all). In fact, for decades he held the record for strikeouts. When asked about this he simply said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
    
50. Tom Landry: As the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Landry brought the team two Super Bowl victories, five NFC Championship victories and holds the records for the record for the most career wins. He also has the distinction of having one of the worst first seasons on record (winning no games) and winning five or fewer over the next four seasons.
    

[Rahul Always 87]

^^^^

I need to learn to start failing now.... so that I can succeed

That is in the lighter vein. Otherwise, great reading indeed! Thanks Genius (+)

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