Day 66 Failing Means Living

Day 66-英语学习打卡
Date:4th Dec
Topic:English Central-Failing Means Living

收获：
→句子：Many famous people had actually failed at some point in their lives before reaching success.

词汇：

1. Cut from （the high school basketball team）
2. put your best foot forward=to do something very well
3. fiancee:a woman who is engaged to be married
   (fiance:a man who is engaged to be married)
4. on the way out: becoming no longer popular
5. by virtue of: because of something

Dismissed from drama school with a note that read, "Wasting your time".
She's too shy to put her best foot forward.(Lucille Ball)

Turned down by the Decca recording company who said,...
..."We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out".(The Beatles)

A failed soldier, farmer, and real estate agent.
At 38 years old, he went to work for his father as a handyman.(Ulysses S. Grant)

Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room, and cried.(Michael Jordan)

A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything...
...and he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.(Thomas Edison)

Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination and had no original ideas.(Walt Disney)

His fiancee died, he failed in business twice,...
...he had a nervous breakdown, and he was defeated in eight elections.(Abraham Lincoln)

If you've never failed,you've never lived.