Rejection Quotes
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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.
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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
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You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
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The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.
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I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
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We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."
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The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.
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When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.
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Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
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Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
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Don't take rejection personally.
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Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
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There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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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.
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I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.
