10 rejection letters famous people received

Success did not just happen to successful people; they too, have been through rejection like you and I. So don’t let rejection get you down!

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The scorpion stings but I do not

An old man saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out from the water. He calmly extended his hand to reach the creature. When he did, the scorpion stung him. With the effect of the pain, the old man let go the creature and it fell back into the water.

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It depends on how long I hold it

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

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Follow Your Bliss through Open Doors

Steve Jobs said something about loving what you do, ?Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven?t found it yet, keep looking. Don?t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you?ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don?t settle.?

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Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now!

I remember whenever I wanted to go for a run and a storm seemed impending, an excuse always served up, “It is going to rain, I’ll just have my run tomorrow.” Yes, come tomorrow, I would make up another excuse if I wasn’t in the mood for a run that day. Procrastination is human nature. No? Even Issac Newton proved to us in science that procrastination is human nature in his first law about inertia – the reluctant to start moving when one is standing still.

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It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done but he with a chuckle replied that “Maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin on his face. If he worried he hid it.

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