1.Flop Sweat:
Fred Astaire reportedly received this evaluation on an early screen test: "Can't sing. Can't act. Balding. Can dance a little."
2.Better Late:
Colonel Sanders was 65 and on Social Security before he first marketed what would become his KFC recipe.
3.Dim Switch:
Thomas Edison made a thousand unsuccessful attempts to invent the light bulb.
4."Good Grief!":
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz was rejected for every cartoon he submitted to his high school yearbook editors.
5.Copy That:
Chester Carlson's early incarnations of the Xerox machine received 20 rejections over seven years before a company bought his invention.
6.Mickey Mouse Decision:
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he "didn't have any creative ideas."
7.Foul Shot:
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team.
8.No Stone Unturned:
Author J. K. Rowling submitted the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to 12 publishing houses that rejected it.
9.Inauspicious Beginnings:
Nobel Prize-winning biologist John Gurdon once received a report card indicating that a career in science would be "quite ridiculous" for him.
10.Relative Theory:
Albert Einstein was thought to be mentally challenged as a child, and a teacher told him he'd "never amount to anything."
Fred Astaire reportedly received this evaluation on an early screen test: "Can't sing. Can't act. Balding. Can dance a little."
2.Better Late:
Colonel Sanders was 65 and on Social Security before he first marketed what would become his KFC recipe.
3.Dim Switch:
Thomas Edison made a thousand unsuccessful attempts to invent the light bulb.
4."Good Grief!":
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz was rejected for every cartoon he submitted to his high school yearbook editors.
5.Copy That:
Chester Carlson's early incarnations of the Xerox machine received 20 rejections over seven years before a company bought his invention.
6.Mickey Mouse Decision:
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he "didn't have any creative ideas."
7.Foul Shot:
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team.
8.No Stone Unturned:
Author J. K. Rowling submitted the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to 12 publishing houses that rejected it.
9.Inauspicious Beginnings:
Nobel Prize-winning biologist John Gurdon once received a report card indicating that a career in science would be "quite ridiculous" for him.
10.Relative Theory:
Albert Einstein was thought to be mentally challenged as a child, and a teacher told him he'd "never amount to anything."
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