Pick Me Up

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Comedian Milton Berle.

The idea in this cut & paste post is just to have a quick glance at these pick me up lines from real life, whenever Im down.

- The Beatles were turned down by ten recording companies before Capitol took them on as clients. They kept knocking on doors until the right one opened. Their music has now touched billions of lives.

- 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 foolish dreams.' Einstein reshaped our perception of how the Universe operates.

- Before he was elected to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln lost nine public elections, declared bankruptcy twice, and weathered a nervous breakdown and the death of a fiancée. He is quoting as saying: 'You cannot fail unless you quit.'

- Babe Ruth, famous for setting a home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.

- Harrison Ford played a bellboy in his first Columbia picture, 1966's Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, and a studio executive told him, "You ain't got it, kid," the 'it' being star quality. Ford laughs at the story now.

- In the 1950's, one of the best ways struggling new talents could start on the road to fame and fortune was to appear on a nationally televised program called the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. A singer from Tennessee tried out for the show, but failed the audition. Today few people under 50 remember the Ted Mack Amateur Hour or any of the 'winners' of the audition the singer failed, but every year the legend of the young man from Tennessee, Elvis Presley, grows.

- Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none of them worked out, his assistant complained, "All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing." Edison replied confidently, "Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We now know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb."

- Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for his lack of ideas. He also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

- The popular Chicken Soup for the Soul book was rejected by 140 publishers. One publisher said 'yes' and the successful Chicken Soup series was born.