Consider this

In  1889,  Rudyard  Kipling -an  author  won the Literature Nobel Prize in 1907 received the  following  rejection  letter  from  the  San Francisco    Examiner.    "I'm    sorry,    Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime Minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of defeats and setbacks. His greatest contributions  came  when  he  was  a  "senior citizen."Albert  Einstein  did  not  speak  until  he  was four  years  old  and  didn't  read  until  he  was seven.    His    teacher    described    him    as "mentally    slow,    unsociable    and    adrift forever  in  his  foolish  dreams."  He  was expelled and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies  and  ranked  15th  out of 22 in chemistry.General  Douglas  MacArthur  was  turned down for admission to West Point not once but  twice.  But  he  tried  a  third  time,  was accepted   and   marched   into   the   history books.In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue     Book     Modeling     Agency,     told modeling    hopeful    Norma    Jean    Baker (Marilyn   Monroe),   "You'd   better   learn secretarial work or else get married."