Take Hope From This
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1996 Jul / Aug Vol V No 4.
Jack & Mark. 

1. After Fred Astaires first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM studios, dated 1933, said "Cant act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little". Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.
2. Socrates was called" An immortal corrupter of youth."
3. Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant or seamstress by her family.
4. Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer.
5. 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.
6. Charles Darwin, father of the Theory of Evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all, my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect."
7. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Walt Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
8. Thomas Edisons teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything.
9. Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didnt read until he was seven. His teacher described him "as mentally slow, and forever in his foolish dreams." He was expelled and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.
10. Isaac Newton did very poorly in grade school.
11. The sculptor Rodins father said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable.
12. Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, flunked out of college. He was described as "Both unable and unwilling to learn".
13. F W Woolworths employers at the dry goods store said he had not enough sense to wait upon customers.
14. Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.
15. Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.
16. 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 contributions came when he was a "Senior citizen."
17. Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel, M A S H, only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Morrow decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a blockbusting movie and highly successful television series.

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