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How Wrong Can You Be?
""KyfARRY YOU?" The pretty girl snickered in the face of the ardent J-VA young man. "I won't throw myself away on anyone with so few prospects of success in life as you have, John!"
That's the answer John D. Rockefeller received from his first proposal. In a similar manner, other people have passed faulty judgment on many of the most successful figures of our time. As a young man, F. W. Woolworth of five and ten fame became a delivery boy and janitor in a dry goods store. The manager considered him too ignorant to wait on customers.
When Walt Disney first applied for a cartoonist's position on a newspaper, the editor examined his drawings and shook his head. "You don't have any talent, my boy," he said. "Why don't you get into something where you have a chance to succeed?"
"He's stupid, dull, and backward," the teachers said of Albert Einstein when he was a schoolboy. Even his parents feared he was sub-normal.
When Louis Pasteur looked at his University diploma, he saw it marked "mediocre in chemistry."
"He's too stupid to learn, and is always at the foot of his class." These were the words of his teachers concerning young Thomas Edison.
And so it goes . . . before you criticize your fellow men for errors in judgment today, remember, they're a chronic human frailty!
— Fran\ L. Remington.
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Mark Twain was once the guest of honor at the Metropolitan Opera House. He was seated in the box of a wealthy woman, and to his dismay she chattered constantly throughout the performance.
When the opera ended, she thanked Twain for coming and invited him to be her guest again the following week. "I do hope you'll come," she pleaded. "The opera will be 'Carmen'."
"I'll be looking forward to it," replied the famed humorist. "I've never heard you in 'Carmen'."
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As Secretary of State, Cordell Hull was reputed to have never passed judgment on any matter until he had carefully examined all the evidence.
Once while he was taking a train trip with a friend, they saw a large flock of sheep.
"Look," said his friend, "those sheep have just been shorn."
Hull looked at the sheep thoughtfully for several minutes. Then he turned to his friend and said: "Well, at least on this side."