5 failures that got great people, and have not fallen spirit
Motivation Inspiration / / December 19, 2019
They are denied a job?
You refused to go out on a date?
No matter. Any failure - a serious test. Some even take it as a personal insult.
This article is about the fact that even the great and famous are often denied.
They are denied a job?
You refused to go out on a date?
No matter. Any failure - a serious test. Some even take it as a personal insult.
This article is about the fact that even the great and famous are often denied.
1. madonna
In the letter, President Jim Lenner record company says that while Madonna he generally liked, but it is still buggy. In her album enough strong songs, in order to successfully sell.
When the future Queen of Pop has signed yet its first contract for the debut album, he has scattered around the world more than 10 million. copies. Now Madonna is the most the sold singer of all time.
2. Tim Burton
Tim Burton - the director of such films as "Batman," "Batman Returns", "Edward Scissorhands," "Sleepy Hollow," "Planet of the Apes" and "Alice in Wonderland."
In the letter, his book «The Giant Zlig» rejected in Disney Productions. The writer doubts that the book can be sold.
However, this did not stop Tim not only did not take offense at Disney, but also to link part of his life with him. Just a couple of years he will be the first character designer and then as an animator at the studio.
3. U2
It is now U2 - one of the most popular rock bands in the world, which have sold 180 million copies of their albums and won 22 Grammy statuettes. At the end of the '70s, few have heard about them, and they were just looking for a way to fame.
In this letter, Alexander Sinclair from the recording studio RSO Records in a dry official tone informs the group that he is not ready to cooperate with it. Plain paper, no studio sent out dozens, has now become a part of history.
4. Andy Warhole
Andy Warhol - one of the best selling artists in the world. In 2013, the total value sold in the auction of works of the artist was 427.1 million. dollars.
In 1956, Andy decided to give one of his paintings to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. And that's what came out of it:
He refused. So even with humiliating the wording "... a place in the warehouses of our gallery is limited. We can not afford to keep the picture, which will rarely exhibit. " Can you imagine - "warehouses" even no place ?!
Needless to say, that now at this same museum exhibited 168 paintings by Andy Warhol?
5. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein - famous American writer. Her portrait painted by Pablo Picasso. About it wrote Ernest Hemingway. She made a film about Woody Allen. In the end, she put memorials and monuments at home.
But I would not include it in this list (after all, it is the Russian-speaking readers hardly known), if not for this letter, which she had once received:
It was written by publisher Arthur K. Fifield. In the letter, he regretted that even took her book «The Making of Americans» in his hands. He regretted that he had spent on it some of his precious minutes. Yes, that's minutes, because, leafed through a few pages, he realized that the book is no good.
This is not just a failure, and failure to mockery and humiliation. It is not every transfer. And Gertrude suffered and become what has become.
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