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Failure: Walt Disney And Elvis Presley

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“Failure is not opposite of success, it’s part of success.” - Anonymous. In order to stand, you will fall. Even the best authors, musicians, actors, dancers, etc failed in the beginning. You can’t just stand up and expect to take off running. In order to run you have to take the first baby step. During that first step, you 're going to fall but if you are determined you will get back up, and do it all again. A few people famous people who failed in the beginning, but made it big in the end are; Walt Disney and Elvis Presley.
Can you imagine your childhood without Disney? Well, it could easily have been if Walt had listened to his former newspaper editor. The editor told Walt he ‘lacked imagination and had no good ideas’. Undeterred, Old Walt
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