Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
-- Les Brown
About the Quote
Most people will know know you from the few moments they are in contact with you. For some people, you are a genius. For other people, you are a fool. For a different set of people, you are a slob. Yet another set of people, you are charismatic.
We can't control what people think of us, especially people we've never met in person. Timing is a part of that, too. We know what we know; it's not our fault that people ask about what we don't know. We may be in the middle of a massive reorganization in our lives, and for a moment things area a genuine mess.
Each of us knows our good qualities, our bad qualities, and what we need to do to improve as human beings. We need to define ourselves on our own terms, not those of others.
Some Information about Les Brown
Leslie Calvin Brown was born in Miami, Florida, US on 1945-February-17.
Les Brown is an award-wining motivational speaker who has spoken to audiences at not only at Fortune 500 companies abut also worldwide.
Six weeks after he was born his mother gave him and his twin brother up for adoption to Mrs. Mamie Brown.
In the 1950s he was forced to repeat 5th grade because the school's principal thought he was too disruptive in class. This setback led to him needing to take special education classes and being labeled as mentally retarded. It was as an adolescent at Booket T. Washington High School that he would change his path, thanks to a speech and drama instructor who encouraged him to pursue a career in radio broadcasting.
Briefly after graduation he worked for the Department of Sanitation. Then he went to work at a radio station in Miami Beach, Florida, US as an errand boy. There he studied and observed how the disc jockeys worked the equipment and how they engaged with their audiences. His break came when one radio DJ was drunk, so Les Brown stood in for this DJ. Les Brown was hired as a radio DJ on the strength of that performance.
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