Rejection Quotes
-
Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.
-
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.
-
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
-
We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
-
As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
-
Everyone fears rejection.
-
You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
-
Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
-
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
-
Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably true in general. You want to keep your skin thin.
-
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
-
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.
-
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
-
Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.
-
The opening line of the grant rejection read: “It has never been shown that PTSD is relevant to the mission of the Veterans Administration.
-
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.
-
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
-
Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
-
Complete and absolute rejection of this kind of violence.
-
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
