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In this motivational video you'll see a lot of "Famous Failures" and what they had to go through before they succeeded.
We hope you like it and find inspiration for yourself! Enjoy :-)
Her first contract with Columbia Pictures expired because they told her
she WASN'T PRETTY or talented enough to be an actress... ~Marilyn
Monroe~
Failed in business three times and FAILED campaigning seven
times prior to becoming President of the United States... ~Abraham
Lincoln~
A High School dropout whose personal struggles with drugs and poverty culminated in an unsuccessful SUICIDE attempt... ~Eminem~ His teacher told him he was ''TOO STUPID'' to learn anything... ~Thomas Edison~ When
Sidney Poitier first auditioned for the American Negro Theater, he
flubbed lines and spoke in a heavy Caribbean accent, which made the
director ANGRILY tell him to stop wasting his time and do GET A JOB as a
dishwasher... Rejected by Decca Recording studios, who said ''We
don't like their sound- they have NO FUTURE in show business''... ~The
Beatles~
He did not speak until he was FOUR years old. His parents
thought he was ''sub-normal''. He was expelled from school and his
teacher described him as ''MENTALLY SLOW''... ~Albert Einstein~
He was fired by the editor of a newspaper for LACKING in ideas... ~Walt Disney~
Twelve
publishers rejected her manuscript. One year later, one publisher gave
her a chance... but told her to get a job, since she had LITTLE CHANCE
of making money in children's books... ~J.K Rowling~
At 30 years old
he was left devastated and depressed after being unceremoniously REMOVED
from the company he started... ~ Steve Jobs~
His teacher told him that he was a HOPELESS composer... ~Ludwig van Beethoven~ She was FIRED from her job as a news anchor because the told her she ''wasn't fit for television''...~Oprah Winfrey~ Vincent van Gogh sold ONLY one panting ''The Red Vineyard'' in his life, and the sale was just months before his death...
His mother pulled him out of school as a boy so that he could run the family farm. HE FAILED miserably... ~Sir Isaac Newton~ ''I've
missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed OVER and OVER and OVER again in my life and that's why I
SUCCEED''... ~Michael Jordan~
''It is impossible to live without
failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as
well not have lived at all- in which case, you fail by default.'' - J.K.
Rowling
WHATEVER DIFFICULTIES YOU'RE GOING THROUGH... THEY HAVE NOT COME TO STAY! THEY HAVE COME TO PASS... IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE FAILING AT SOMETHING... EVEN IF IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL YOU MIGHT BE JUST TWO MILLIMETERS AWAY FROM YOUR GOAL AND DREAM YOU HAVE THE POWER WITHIN YOU TO MAKE YOUR LIFE FREE AND BEAUTIFUL... NEVER EVER GIVE UP!!!
We seem to be getting an amazing amount of biopics lately. Some have been excellent.
Although many are not totally accurate they are still very enjoyable and if you find a character of interest to you then you have the internet which is a great tool for doing more research.
It is indeed a shame that many people who are amazing genii have had to suffer for it! I am looking forward to this one!
As numbers matter a lot in The Man Who Knew Infinity,
it’s worth noting this elegant film about Indian mathematical genius
Srinivasa Ramanujan took 10 years to make it to the screen. But then 10
is a manageable number compared with those the uneducated, Madras-born
Ramanujan loved, fought and conquered.
His contribution to the field
stands the test of time, almost 100 years since his premature death in
1920, aged just 32.
Mathematics is a mystery to many people,
including me, yet filmmakers know its strangeness can enliven a
character and carry a story.
Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting (1997), in which Ramanujan is mentioned in passing, is one well in the plus column, as is Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind (2001) and more recently the cryptology thriller The Imitation Game and Stephen Hawking bio-drama The Theory of Everything.
I’m also fond of Robert Connolly’s The Bank
(2001), in which David Wenham is a mathematician able to manipulate the
stock market. So we perhaps don’t need to hear Bertrand Russell
(jovially played by Jeremy Northam) at the outset of this film to bring
us on board, but as it turns out the quote is a telling one:
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme
beauty.”
The main story is Ramanujan’s five years at the University of
Cambridge, where he works on and publishes his groundbreaking theories.
India
is under British rule, World War I is around the corner and people high
and low do not treat this man like a human being, let alone a genius.
How dare he argue with British thinking? The racism is edgy and
believable.
When still in Chennai, Ramanujan says to a friend,
“The British think I am a raving lunatic”, the friend replies, “So do
the Indians.” He leaves behind a nervous wife and a controlling mother.
Ramanujan
is invited to Cambridge after writing letters to mathematics professor
GH Hardy, an unusual, solitary don who mainly sticks to the rules but
thinks the young man’s work may change the universe. Ramanujan is played
by the earnest, endearing Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and Hardy is superbly inhabited by Jeremy Irons, in one of his best performances.
The
chemistry between the two is thrilling in a fractured way. Shy Hardy
rarely looks anyone in the eye, yet he sees something in his protege
that makes him feel more human. “I owe more to him than to anyone else
in the world,” he says at one point. Never married, he also describes
their working relationship as “the one romantic incident of my life”.
Irons brings superb fragility to this removed, resilient character, in a
way that took me back to his younger time at the other university,
Oxford, in the masterpiece television series Brideshead Revisited.
The
story becomes an intellectual skirmish between Ramanujan and Hardy and
the latter’s bloodier battle with the university hierarchy. Hardy has
decent allies in Russell (‘‘Welcome to our little asylum,” is how he
greets Ramanujan) and John Littlewood (Toby Jones).
I knew nothing
about Ramanujan and will keep it that way here, as viewers who do not
will find the plot riveting. It’s an old-fashioned English historical
drama, and I say that with high praise.
Written and directed by Matthew
Brown, it’s based on a 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.
(Another book that may interest if you like this film is David Leavitt’s
2007 novel The Indian Clerk.) The script is intelligent and
sharp, full of seriousness and humour.
When Hardy advises that he is an
atheist, Ramanjun replies, “You believe in God; you just don’t think he
likes you.’’ I can’t say anything informed about the maths, but the fact
two high-profile mathematicians, Manjul Bhargava and Ken Ono, are on
board as executive producers means it probably adds up.
Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational
waves in 1916. Here’s his original hand-written logicwhich the genius later
converted into a typed manuscript.
This
remarkably preserved piece of history is kept at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem’s Albert Einstein Archives, which contains about 55,000 items of
Einstein’s work.
In
fact, Albert Einstein was one of the university’s first Board of Governors — an
influential member who helps run a university — and left all of his personal
papers, as well as the copyright to them, to the university in his
Will.
Here, the curator for Einstein’s archives, Roni Grosz, points to
one of the critical equations from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity,
which predicts that two celestial bodies in orbit will generate invisible
ripples in spacetime that experts call gravitational waves.
On
Feb. 11, 2016 an international collaboration of scientists working with the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that 100
years after Einstein’s prediction, they had successfully detected a gravitational wave for the first
time. That
same day, curator Grosz dug up Einstein’s original manuscripts for gravitational
waves, and posed for the camera in celebration of the momentous
achievement.
Some
of the most powerful events in the universe, like two colliding black holes or a
supernova explosion, generate powerful gravitational waves. These events are
also some of the most mysterious because astrophysicists don’t understand why
black holes collide or what triggers a supernova. Gravitational waves could help
solve some of these mysteries.
