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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 10:51AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Wake up ICC..! Is it part of a grand match fixing going on in England? In the 2nd ODI England got out for just 99 runs vs Sri Lanka. In the 3rd ODI SL got out for just 67 runs in 24 overs which was overhauled by the England’s team in 12.1 overs. This SL […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 10:26AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” Rachel Carson (1907-1964); Marine Biologist, Author

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:21AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Michael Jordan Michael Jordan failed getting into his varsity basketball team during sophomore year because he was clumsy and was only 5 feet 11 inches tall. High school and college sports performances are what NBA recruiters look into when scouting for talent, but Jordan had failed right from the start. So, he locked himself up […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:19AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Lucille Ball Lucille was booted out of New York’s John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts for being too scared to perform. After that, she kept going back and forth New York as a fashion model and actress, getting fired from at least two stage productions. She went to Hollywood, got a contract with […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:19AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Steven Spielberg As a dyslexic young man, Spielberg’s application to the University of Southern California’s School of Theater, Film, and Television was rejected thrice. He went to California State University in Long Beach instead, but ended up dropping out of it anyway. His directorial debut was “Sugarland Express”—praised by critics, but a box office failure. […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:18AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Walt Disney Walt Disney was once a young artist whose editor fired him because he reportedly “lacked imagination” or “good ideas.” Disney wanted to start a company creating animated short films. But his first few tries failed; at one point he even lost some of his employees and the rights to his own animated character […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 09:17AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Oprah Winfrey TV’s queen of talk grew up with poverty and child abuse. She tried her hand at being a television reporter. But she was fired from her TV job because she wasn’t considered fit for TV. Emotional problems stemming from childhood had made her eat obsessively, creating her weight problem. She also tried smoking […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:49AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Winston Churchill Churchill was a rebellious boy who never did well in school, even failing sixth grade. He had a lisp and a stutter. He tried his hand at building a military and political career, but he failed at nearly every election he ran in. In later years, he was politically isolated from even the […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:48AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

Albert Einstein People thought Einstein was a “slow” young man. He hated the regimented ways of school. At the age of 16, he failed the entrance exams at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, and had to a smaller school instead. Though he managed to get a teaching diploma from the Swiss Polytechnic later on, […]

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Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:47AM

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 29, 2014 in My Views

J. K. Rowling At one point, the famous author of the Harry Potter books was a broke, unemployed, and depressed divorced mother feeding her children through welfare. She was cradling a baby even as she wrote her manuscript for “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in a café, trying to write, eat, and get her […]

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