Thought 19MAR2009

CONSIDER THIS
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this British rock group call the Beatles, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.

"In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, "You ain't goin' nowhere ... son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." Elvis Presley went on to become the most popular singer in America.

After having lost both legs in an air crash, British fighter pilot Douglas Bader rejoined the British Royal Air Force with two artificial limbs. During World War II he was captured by the Germans three times - and three times he escaped.
Extracted from 'A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul', Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Health Communication, Inc., 1995
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds - Jewish Proverb