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Famous Failures

about 3 hours ago

A week after his fourth gold medal in Berlin the Amateur Athletic Union suspended him from amateur competition, and by Christmas he was racing a horse in Havana for money — Jesse Owens, sprinter and long jumper. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/3iEwGnIpVu

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Famous Failures

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On her fortieth birthday another rejection arrived. She covered her typewriter and swore she was done — Madeleine L'Engle, novelist. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/a9YhiuqXsE

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Famous Failures

about 11 hours ago

She bombed the law entrance exam twice, was turned down for a Goofy costume, and sold fax machines for seven years — Sara Blakely, consumer products founder. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/dmPseNQDrC

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Famous Failures

about 15 hours ago

Demoted, defunded, pushed out after 24 years. Kept running the experiment — Katalin Karikó, biochemistry. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/KAymlwSglM

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Famous Failures

about 19 hours ago

T. S. Eliot rejected him twice, twelve years apart. The second book was Animal Farm — George Orwell, novelist and essayist. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/lCVei8bvbG

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Famous Failures

about 23 hours ago

He crashed a power network trying to make diamonds, came back from Trinidad with most of his capital gone, and was written off as a lunatic in a newspaper's reception — John Logie Baird, engineer. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/cdEM0HLZzZ

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Famous Failures

1 day ago

He was Chunk in The Goonies. He aged out of acting at sixteen, and is now the lawyer other former child actors hire — Jeff Cohen, entertainment lawyer, former child actor. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/9hz2eMCB2r

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Famous Failures

1 day ago

Turned away by the Marines for being too short, then by the paratroopers, then nearly sent to cookery school — Audie Murphy, soldiering. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/R8xrKpq1yZ

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Famous Failures

1 day ago

Rembrandt van Rijn failed 5 times. The money never came back. The work kept coming. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/syI7XWpSDC

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Famous Failures

1 day ago

He ran the family hardware business into the ground, was jailed for debt on and off from 1830 to 1855, and was still about two hundred thousand dollars in debt when he died — Charles Goodyear, inventor. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/eQDQFjJzF2

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Famous Failures

2 days ago

His own school yearbook would not print his drawings. He called it his first major rejection — Charles M. Schulz, cartooning. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/UgN7dJyGIS

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Famous Failures

2 days ago

He failed the RAF medical twice as a boy of fifteen and sixteen, was told the jet engine was impracticable, and lost the patent over a £5 renewal fee nobody would pay — Sir Frank Whittle, engineer. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/SKMCABPOoe

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Famous Failures

2 days ago

Hayao Miyazaki failed 9 times. Founded Studio Ghibli. Two Academy Awards. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/HVvUHCuIkr

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Famous Failures

2 days ago

He developed stage fright at fifty-seven and kept walking on stage anyway, terrified, for years — Laurence Olivier, stage actor. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/9tKG1NiLbx

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Famous Failures

2 days ago

He was thirty-one, making lavatories for aeroplanes, and kept the factory job mindset for years — Bill Withers, soul singer-songwriter. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/0OLKOjsQUr

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Famous Failures

3 days ago

Dropped by his label, working demolition — and a star in countries he had never visited — Sixto Rodriguez, singer-songwriter. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/8KFf2ZSIum

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Famous Failures

3 days ago

Colonel Harland Sanders failed 5 times. Sold KFC for $2 million, aged seventy-three. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/Ed61ECHLWu

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Famous Failures

3 days ago

He lost the use of an eye, then an arm, then wrote that he was a burden to his friends and useless to his country — Horatio Nelson, naval command. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/VnIL0lntbo

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Famous Failures

3 days ago

He lost his seat twice, was blamed for a military catastrophe, and spent the 1930s written off entirely — Winston Churchill, politics. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/iOF1gbRdNA

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Famous Failures

3 days ago

Thrown out of his first audition by the collar. He came back and offered to be the janitor — Sidney Poitier, actor. #famousfailures #failurepledge https://t.co/Vb93uR7uM1

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