Thursday, December 26, 2013

God - The Key Player

'It is well said, "Himmat-e marda, madad-e khuda"- God helps those who help themselves. Some of the few real life inspiring stories and incidents explain the nectar of life to us. Those who have never lose their heart and face each and every adversity with holding the bull from its horns attitude, are the examples of motivation and courage. Lets empathize their life and after-success. May be some of us facing something like this or went through such phases of our respective life.

  • Daniel Craig was once a homeless actor chasing an impossible dream while sleeping on a bench in public park.
 
  • Elvis Presley was fired after just one performance telling him, “You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.”
 
  • Akio Morita- Sony brand's first product was a rice cooker- a super flop, selling less than 100 units.
 
  • Soichiro Honda was turned down in interview by Toyota Motor Corporation for an engineer job , leaving him jobless, broken and empty pocket till he started making scooters of his own at home
 
  • Colonel Sanders/ KFC started at 65 years old with his fried chicken recipe and drove/ knocking on doors, sleeping in his car, wearing his white suit and was rejected 1009 times by chefs/co.s
 
  • Albert Einstein didn’t speak till four yrs and read till seven yrs and he was thought to be mentally handicapped.
 
  • Steven Spielberg was denied two times to the prestigious University of Southern California film school and then he was awarded with an honorary degree from the film school that rejected him twice.
 
  • John Gresham was rejected 28 times for his first book 'A Time to Kill' which sold over 250 million total copies.
 
  • Walt Disney was fired by a news editor and rejected 302 times cause he lacked imagination.
 
  • Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job and was told that she was not fit for TV earlier in her life.
 
  • Halle Berry stayed in a homeless shelter during her struggling time.
 
  • Ignacy J. Paderewski- The great pianist later become PM/Poland performed free of cost for paying fee of two students and one of them was Herbert Hoover- (US President) was respectfully paid-back with food grains etc. during the famine period in Poland.
 
  • Jim Carrey -a high school drop-out, lived in a bus with his family parked in different places, eventually moved into a tent at his older sister's lawn and those tough financial times got developed his sense of humor.
 
  • Jewel-the platinum singer lived on the streets as homeless for about a month after losing her job cos she refused an indecent offer made by her boss. She had kidney sickness but didn’t have insurance and ended up almost dying in the parking lot of an emergency room because she could not be admitted because of no-insurance.
 
  • Chris Gardner - The author of autobiography "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be." had a childhood with poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism, sexual abuse and family illiteracy inspired a real life based Hollywood's movie "The Pursuit of Happiness" starring Will Smith.
 
  • Harry Houdini knew he wanted to be a magician and when 12 yrs old, ran away from home by hopping a freight car and begged for money in the NYC streets.
 
  • Louis Pasteur was mediocre student with ranked 15 out of 22 in Chemistry.

  • "Gone with the Wind" -Margaret Mitchell was turned down by more than twenty-five publishers.
 
  • "Star Wars" was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it.
 
  • Leonardo Del Vecchio- Ray-Ban and Oakley maker, was an orphaned went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames lost part of his finger for earning money to support his life.
 
  • J.K. Rowling was divorced and living on welfare with a dependent child when she wrote Ist book about Harry Potter.
  
Life is full of positive surprises!!....