"You haven't given up, have you?"

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Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment, said in 1977, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” A Western Union Telegraph Company internal memo in 1876 read, “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” When Gary Cooper turned down the lead role in Gone with the Wind, he said, “I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.” When in 1962 Decca Recording Co. rejected the Beatles, it was because “We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

“Given-up thinking” is everywhere, isn’t it? But don’t you give up. Conventional thinking isn’t always on target. God’s thinking is.

The dreams you have in your heart are God’s gift to you. Follow those dreams. Never give up pursuing them no matter how much the newscasters say this is a tough economy. And as you pay your taxes, be glad you’ve not given up on your job, and have a salary to take taxes out of.Don’t give up as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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