Frenz no matter how old you are now. You are never 2 young or 2 old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished & (against the odds) great things at different ages… 1) Helen Keller At the age of 19 months Helen became deaf & blind. But that didn’t stop her.She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard & violin, he composed from the age of 5 3) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank 4) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13 years 5) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama November 1950, at the age of 15 6) Issac Newton at 24 wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 7) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 8) Alexander the Great by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 9) J.K.Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript for Harry Potter 10) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman 2 fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 11) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest (highest Mountain in the world 12) Martin Luther King jr was 34 When he did the speech “I have a dream” 13) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated 4 Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 14) The Wright brothers, Orville (was 32 ) & Wilbur (was 36) when they invented & built the worlds first successful airplane & making the first controlled, powered & sustained heavier-than-air human flight 15) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died & virtually unknown yet his paintings today are worth millions 16) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon 17) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 18) John F. Kennedy was 43years when he became President of the United States 19) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out 20) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa 21) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president 22) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels 23) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 24) J R R Tolkien was 62 when the lord of the ring books came out 25) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the United States 26) Nelson Mandela was 76 When he Became Presid.......
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:57:30 +0000
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