#FridayFailure #FamousFailures Rudyard Kipling pitched a story to the San Francisco Examiner, who responded "You just don't know how to use the English Language."

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures “In its present form, I regret to say that the book is unsalable and unpublishable,” one publisher wrote to Ayn Rand regarding her groundbreaking novel Atlas Shrugged.

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures When Gertrude Stein sent her The Making of Americans manuscript to publisher Aruther C. Fifield in 1912 he responded, "repetitions that are more conscientious and less lazy writers would have put in in the waste basket."

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures Kurt Vonnegut's writing sample The Dresden Bombing was rejected by Atlantic Monthly which he eventually turned into Slaughterhouse-Five.

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” —Ken Robinson #Friday #failure #failurefriday #fridayfailure #kenrobinson

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures Not everyone was a fan of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Publisher Peacock & Peacock wrote: "I found you efforts to be tedious and offensive."

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures T.S. Eliot rejected George Orwell's Animal House, and the work was rejected by 4 other publishers before finally making it to print.

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures When Louisa May Alcott wrote about her experience as a governess in the essay “How I Went Out to Service,” publisher James T. Fields’s stinging rejection of the piece included the line, “Stick to your teaching, Miss Alcott. You can’t write.”

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room was also rejected "Our objection is not to the length or the subject of the book; we simply felt strongly that you are not successful in what you are trying to do."

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures F. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was once called "an absurd story," and that he'd "have a decent book if he'd get rid of that Gatsby character."

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures William Golding's Lord of the Flies was rejected 20 times and called "an absurd and uninteresting fantasy which was rubbish and dull." It went on to sell over 15 million copies worldwide.

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.” —Charles F. Kettering #Friday #failure #failurefriday #fridayfailure #practiceshots #charlesfkettering

What a cult-worshipping, career failure, soon-to-be-jailbird looks like. #FridayFailure #HabbaMoron #TrumpForPrison2024

#FridayFailure #FamousFailures An editor at Alfred A Knopf rejected Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar stating, "There certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice."

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” —George Bernard Shaw #Friday #failure #failurefriday #fridayfailure #georgebernardshaw #makingmistakes #doingnothing #honorable

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” —John C. Maxwell #Friday #failure #failurefriday #fridayfailure #bigenough #admitmistakes #strongenough #johncmaxwell

Career failure is not optional, it’s necessary for a thriving, authentic, fulfilling career… #fridayfailure #careers #work #women

Have we mentioned we design and manufacture enclosures for hydrostatic testing? 🧐 #FridayFailure

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” —Robert F. Kennedy #Friday #failure #failurefriday #fridayfailure #robertfkennedy #failgreatly #achievegreatly