Consider this
# After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933 said, ''Cant act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!'' Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.
# An expert said of Vince Lombardi: '' He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lack motivation.''
# Socrates was called, ''An immoral corrupter of youth.''
# Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as ''mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.'' He was expelled and refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.
# Thomas Edison's teacher said he was too stupid to learn anything.
# Henry Ford failed and went broke five tmes before he finally succeeded.
# Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime Minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of defeats and setbacks. His greatest contribution came when he was a ''senior citizen.''
( source: Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor hansen)
