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—Sir Edmund Hillary to Mount Everest, 1952, one year before he and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first men to scale the world’s highest peak.—Sir Edmund Hillary to Mount Everest, 1952, one year before he and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first men to scale the world’s highest peak.

High Achievers and innovaters initially get highly negative reactions like-

Before Invention of Telephones- Alexander Graham Bell

“The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys.”

—British experts, 1876

“The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys.”

—British experts, 1876

“We have declined to buy the patent on Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. The public cannot be trusted to master such complicated equipment.”

“We have declined to buy the patent on Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. The public cannot be trusted to master such complicated equipment.”

——Western Union, 1876 Western Union, 1876

“That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”—President Rutherford Hayes after making a demonstration phone call. 1877

“That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”—President Rutherford Hayes after making a demonstration phone call. 1877

Before Invention of Aeroplane

“Orville, humans will not be able to fly for another 50 years.”

—Wilbur Wright, 1901

“Orville, humans will not be able to fly for another 50 years.”

—Wilbur Wright, 1901

To people before there success-

“You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”—A modeling agency to Marilyn Monroe, 1944

“You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”—A modeling agency to Marilyn Monroe, 1944

“You ain’t goin’ nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.”— Grand Ole Opry manager Jimmy Denny to Elvis Presley, 1954

“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”——Decca Records Decca Records officials on turning officials on turning down the Beatles, down the Beatles, 1962 1962

“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”——Decca Records Decca Records officials on turning officials on turning down the Beatles, down the Beatles, 1962 1962

A Positive Response-

When a reporter asked Thomas Edison how it felt to have failed 25,000 times in his effort to create a simple storage battery, his reply was, “I don’t know why you are calling it a failure. Today I know 25,000 ways not to make a battery. What do you know?”

When a reporter asked Thomas Edison how it felt to have failed 25,000 times in his effort to create a simple storage battery, his reply was, “I don’t know why you are calling it a failure. Today I know 25,000 ways not to make a battery. What do you know?”

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.”

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.”

When our dreams begin to die, so do we. When we share our dreams with God, He won’t laugh and say, “Well, good luck.” As a matter of fact, God will take our dreams more seriously than we do, because He knows no compromise. He doesn’t deal in pieces of happiness and shadows of dreams. He will ask more of us than we ask of ourselves, but He will return more to us than we could ever hope or imagine ourselves.”

When our dreams begin to die, so do we. When we share our dreams with God, He won’t laugh and say, “Well, good luck.” As a matter of fact, God will take our dreams more seriously than we do, because He knows no compromise. He doesn’t deal in pieces of happiness and shadows of dreams. He will ask more of us than we ask of ourselves, but He will return more to us than we could ever hope or imagine ourselves.” -- Martha

Williamson Executive producer of the TV series “Touched by an Angel”

-- Martha Williamson Executive producer of the TV series “Touched by an Angel”