Consider This
Written by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Read by Jonathan Else
General Douglas MacArthur was turned down for admission to West Point not once but twice. But he tried a third time, was accepted and marched into the history books.
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
In 1889, 1)Rudyard Kipling received the following 2)rejection letter from the San Francisco Examiner: “I’m sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language.”
Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime Minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of 3)defeats and 4)setbacks. His greatest contributions came when he was a “5)senior citizen.”
The parents of the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso wanted him to be an engineer. His teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as “6)mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was 7)expelled and was refused 8)admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.
9)Louis Pasteur was only a 10)mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 in chemistry.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe), “You'd better learn 11)secretarial work or else get married.”
While turning down the British rock group called the Beatles, one executive of Decca Recording Company said, “We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of 12)the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, “You ain't goin' nowhere…son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck.”
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential 13)backers. President Rutherford Hayes said, “That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”
Rafer Johnson, the 14)decathlon champion, was born with a 15)club foot.
When Thomas Edison invented the 16)light bulb, he tried over 2,000 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 2,000-step process.”
After years of progressive 17)hearing loss, by age 46 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven had become completely deaf. Nevertheless, he wrote his greatest music—including five symphonies—during his later years.
注釋：
1)Rudyard Kipling 拉迪亞德·吉卜林（英國作家，1907年獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎）
2)rejection [ri5dVekFEn] n. 拒絕
3)defeat [di5fi:t] n. 擊敗，戰(zhàn)勝，失敗
4)setback [5setbAk] n. 頓挫，挫折
5) senior citizen 老年人
6) mentally [5mentEli] ad. 精神上，智力上，在內(nèi)心
7)expel [iks5pel] v. 驅(qū)逐，開除
8)admittance [Ed5mitEns] n. 入場權(quán)，準(zhǔn)入
9)Louis Pasteur 路易斯·巴斯德（法國化學(xué)家、微生物學(xué)家）
10)mediocre [7mi:di5EukE] a. 普普通通的
11)secretarial [7sekrE5tZEriEl] a. 秘書的，書記的
12)the Grand Ole Opry 鄉(xiāng)村老大劇院（美國歷史最悠久，專門播放鄉(xiāng)村音樂與節(jié)目的娛樂機構(gòu)）
13)backer [5bAkE] n. 支持者
14)decathlon [di5kAWlCn] n. 十項運動
15)club foot 畸形足，內(nèi)外足
16)light bulb 電燈泡
17)hearing loss 聽覺損耗，聽力損失
人生失意且細(xì)思
道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟將軍曾經(jīng)遭到西點軍校不止一次而是兩次的拒絕。但他做了第三次嘗試，最終被錄取并且名垂青史。
籃球巨星邁克爾·喬丹在高中時曾被?；@球隊除名。
1889年，拉迪亞德·吉卜林曾收到《舊金山晚報》的退稿信：“很抱歉，吉卜林先生，你根本不懂如何使用英語?！?BR> 溫斯頓·丘吉爾沒有通過六年級的考試。他62歲才當(dāng)上英國首相，這之前他已經(jīng)歷了一生的失敗和挫折。他作出了貢獻(xiàn)的時候已是垂暮之年了。
歌劇演唱家恩里科·卡魯索的父母本想讓他做個工程師。而他的老師則說他五音不全，根本唱不了歌。
艾伯特·愛因斯坦四歲之前不會說話，七歲之前不會認(rèn)字。他的老師是這樣描述他的：“遲鈍，不合群，神思恍惚，老在做白日夢?！彼惶K黎世工藝學(xué)校逐出校門并拒其入學(xué)。
路易斯·巴斯德在大學(xué)里成績平平，在22名化學(xué)專業(yè)的學(xué)生中排名15。
1994年，藍(lán)皮書模特公司的經(jīng)理埃米琳·斯尼維利對希望成為模特的諾瑪·瓊·貝克（即瑪麗蓮·夢露）說：“你要不學(xué)點秘書實務(wù)，或者干脆嫁人算了?！?BR> DECCA音像公司的一位決策人在拒絕英國搖滾樂組合“甲殼蟲”樂隊時說：“我們不喜歡他們的音樂。吉他組合行將過時了?！?BR> 1954年，鄉(xiāng)村老大劇院的經(jīng)理吉米·丹尼在一次演出后開除了艾維斯·普雷斯利（貓王）。他對普雷斯利說：“孩子，你出不了名的。還是回去開貨車吧?！?BR> 1876年，亞歷山大·格雷厄姆·貝爾發(fā)明了電話，但并沒有吸引投資商的眼光。拉瑟福德·海斯總統(tǒng)說：“這是個了不起的發(fā)明，但誰會用它呢？”
十項全能運動冠軍拉斐·約翰遜出生的時候一只腳畸形。
托馬斯·愛迪生發(fā)明燈泡的時候，他做了2000次多的實驗才成功。一個年輕的記者問他失敗了這么多次的感受如何，他回答說：“我從來沒有失敗。我發(fā)明了燈泡，所以只能說這恰恰是個有2000個步驟的過程?！?BR> 多年來聽力不斷衰退，德國作曲家路德維?！し病へ惗喾?6歲時雙耳完全失聰。盡管如此，他在之后的幾年里創(chuàng)作出了生平最偉大的音樂篇章——其中包括五支交響曲。
注:本資料來源互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，由網(wǎng)友提供,僅供學(xué)習(xí)愛好者參考，版權(quán)屬于作者本人，如本網(wǎng)轉(zhuǎn)載稿涉及版權(quán)等問題，請作者在兩周內(nèi)速來電與本站聯(lián)系，我們將馬上刪除。本網(wǎng)轉(zhuǎn)載的文/圖等稿出于傳遞更多信息之目的，并不意味著贊同其觀點或證實其內(nèi)容的真實性!
Written by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Read by Jonathan Else
General Douglas MacArthur was turned down for admission to West Point not once but twice. But he tried a third time, was accepted and marched into the history books.
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
In 1889, 1)Rudyard Kipling received the following 2)rejection letter from the San Francisco Examiner: “I’m sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language.”
Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime Minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of 3)defeats and 4)setbacks. His greatest contributions came when he was a “5)senior citizen.”
The parents of the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso wanted him to be an engineer. His teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as “6)mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was 7)expelled and was refused 8)admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.
9)Louis Pasteur was only a 10)mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 in chemistry.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe), “You'd better learn 11)secretarial work or else get married.”
While turning down the British rock group called the Beatles, one executive of Decca Recording Company said, “We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of 12)the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, “You ain't goin' nowhere…son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck.”
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential 13)backers. President Rutherford Hayes said, “That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”
Rafer Johnson, the 14)decathlon champion, was born with a 15)club foot.
When Thomas Edison invented the 16)light bulb, he tried over 2,000 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 2,000-step process.”
After years of progressive 17)hearing loss, by age 46 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven had become completely deaf. Nevertheless, he wrote his greatest music—including five symphonies—during his later years.
注釋：
1)Rudyard Kipling 拉迪亞德·吉卜林（英國作家，1907年獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎）
2)rejection [ri5dVekFEn] n. 拒絕
3)defeat [di5fi:t] n. 擊敗，戰(zhàn)勝，失敗
4)setback [5setbAk] n. 頓挫，挫折
5) senior citizen 老年人
6) mentally [5mentEli] ad. 精神上，智力上，在內(nèi)心
7)expel [iks5pel] v. 驅(qū)逐，開除
8)admittance [Ed5mitEns] n. 入場權(quán)，準(zhǔn)入
9)Louis Pasteur 路易斯·巴斯德（法國化學(xué)家、微生物學(xué)家）
10)mediocre [7mi:di5EukE] a. 普普通通的
11)secretarial [7sekrE5tZEriEl] a. 秘書的，書記的
12)the Grand Ole Opry 鄉(xiāng)村老大劇院（美國歷史最悠久，專門播放鄉(xiāng)村音樂與節(jié)目的娛樂機構(gòu)）
13)backer [5bAkE] n. 支持者
14)decathlon [di5kAWlCn] n. 十項運動
15)club foot 畸形足，內(nèi)外足
16)light bulb 電燈泡
17)hearing loss 聽覺損耗，聽力損失
人生失意且細(xì)思
道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟將軍曾經(jīng)遭到西點軍校不止一次而是兩次的拒絕。但他做了第三次嘗試，最終被錄取并且名垂青史。
籃球巨星邁克爾·喬丹在高中時曾被?；@球隊除名。
1889年，拉迪亞德·吉卜林曾收到《舊金山晚報》的退稿信：“很抱歉，吉卜林先生，你根本不懂如何使用英語?！?BR> 溫斯頓·丘吉爾沒有通過六年級的考試。他62歲才當(dāng)上英國首相，這之前他已經(jīng)歷了一生的失敗和挫折。他作出了貢獻(xiàn)的時候已是垂暮之年了。
歌劇演唱家恩里科·卡魯索的父母本想讓他做個工程師。而他的老師則說他五音不全，根本唱不了歌。
艾伯特·愛因斯坦四歲之前不會說話，七歲之前不會認(rèn)字。他的老師是這樣描述他的：“遲鈍，不合群，神思恍惚，老在做白日夢?！彼惶K黎世工藝學(xué)校逐出校門并拒其入學(xué)。
路易斯·巴斯德在大學(xué)里成績平平，在22名化學(xué)專業(yè)的學(xué)生中排名15。
1994年，藍(lán)皮書模特公司的經(jīng)理埃米琳·斯尼維利對希望成為模特的諾瑪·瓊·貝克（即瑪麗蓮·夢露）說：“你要不學(xué)點秘書實務(wù)，或者干脆嫁人算了?！?BR> DECCA音像公司的一位決策人在拒絕英國搖滾樂組合“甲殼蟲”樂隊時說：“我們不喜歡他們的音樂。吉他組合行將過時了?！?BR> 1954年，鄉(xiāng)村老大劇院的經(jīng)理吉米·丹尼在一次演出后開除了艾維斯·普雷斯利（貓王）。他對普雷斯利說：“孩子，你出不了名的。還是回去開貨車吧?！?BR> 1876年，亞歷山大·格雷厄姆·貝爾發(fā)明了電話，但并沒有吸引投資商的眼光。拉瑟福德·海斯總統(tǒng)說：“這是個了不起的發(fā)明，但誰會用它呢？”
十項全能運動冠軍拉斐·約翰遜出生的時候一只腳畸形。
托馬斯·愛迪生發(fā)明燈泡的時候，他做了2000次多的實驗才成功。一個年輕的記者問他失敗了這么多次的感受如何，他回答說：“我從來沒有失敗。我發(fā)明了燈泡，所以只能說這恰恰是個有2000個步驟的過程?！?BR> 多年來聽力不斷衰退，德國作曲家路德維?！し病へ惗喾?6歲時雙耳完全失聰。盡管如此，他在之后的幾年里創(chuàng)作出了生平最偉大的音樂篇章——其中包括五支交響曲。
注:本資料來源互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，由網(wǎng)友提供,僅供學(xué)習(xí)愛好者參考，版權(quán)屬于作者本人，如本網(wǎng)轉(zhuǎn)載稿涉及版權(quán)等問題，請作者在兩周內(nèi)速來電與本站聯(lián)系，我們將馬上刪除。本網(wǎng)轉(zhuǎn)載的文/圖等稿出于傳遞更多信息之目的，并不意味著贊同其觀點或證實其內(nèi)容的真實性!