Rejection Quotes
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Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
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It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.
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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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I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren't used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.
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Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.
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My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
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When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.
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But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.
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The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
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I experienced rejection numerous times.
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Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
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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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I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
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I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.
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You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
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Everyone fears rejection.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.
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I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
