Rejection Quotes

• ..the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Abstraction
  • Towards
  • Impressionistic

• People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • People
  • Experience
  • Kids

• The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

  

  Celinda Lake
  • Organization
  • Position
  • Headings

• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Wish
  • Conscience
  • Rejection

• I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

  Etel Adnan
  • Read
  • French
  • Boycott

• An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rejection

• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Holiday
  • Retirement
  • Rejection

• Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • God
  • Rejection

• I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • America
  • Bigs
  • Importance

• I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

  

  Sierra McCormick
  • Realize
  • Rejection
  • Casting

• Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Flower
  • Rejection
  • Terms

• I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Fitness

• We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Actors

• Anarchism is not chaos; Anarchism is not rejection of organization. This is another popular misconception, repeated ad nauseam by the corporate media and by anarchism's political foes, especially Marxists (who sometimes know better).

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Organization
  • Chaos
  • Misconception

• The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Free
  • Nice
  • Rejection

• I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • People
  • Picture
  • Name

• The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

  

  Brian Koppelman
  • People
  • Merit
  • Evaluation

• It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Reason
  • Acceptance
  • Easier

• The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

  

  Michele Lee
  • Mother
  • Want
  • Instruction

• Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Rejection

• The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

  

  Aaron Zigman
  • Competition
  • Rejection
  • Handle

• Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Rejection

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