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Old 11-27-2004, 08:08 PM  
nolaman
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More inspiration for you fuckers:

Einstein was four years old before he could speak.

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer he is hopeless."

When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
Admiral Peary attempted to reach the North Pole seven times before he made it on try number eight.

Oscar Hammerstein had five flop shows that lasted less than a combined total of six weeks before Oklahoma, which ran for 269 weeks and grossed $7 million.

John Creasey received 743 rejection slips from publishers before one word was ever published - he eventually published 560 books, which have sold more than 60 million copies.

F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry good store when he was 21, but his employer would not let him wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense."

A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas.

Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade.

Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever.
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