Subject: Believing in You...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:27:49 +1000
Believing in You...
Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years
old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried
about his mental ability.
Beethoven's music teacher said about him, "As a composer he is hopeless."
What if young Ludwig believed it?
When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid he
could never learn anything. He once said, "I remember I used to never be
able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class...my
father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a dunce." What
if young Thomas believed what they said about him?
When F. W. Woolworth was 21, he got a job in a store, but was not allowed
to wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense."
When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young he had difficulty learning to
read and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability, but his
father said of him, "I have an idiot for a son."
His uncle agreed. "He's uneducable," he said. What if Rodin had doubted his
ability?
A newspaper editor once fired Walt Disney because he was thought to have no
"good ideas." Caruso was told by one music teacher, "You can't sing. You
have no voice at all." And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was
incapable of writing anything that would have popular appeal.
What if these people had listened and become discouraged? Where would our
world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of
Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison? As Oscar Levant has accurately said,
"It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
You have great potential. When you believe in all you can be, rather than
all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth.
Thought for the Month
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you
are doing the impossible." -- Saint Francis of Assisi
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