Rejection Quotes
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I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.
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I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.
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All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
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The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.
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General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of self-critique, professional rejection and stagnation. All are part of the roller coaster ride of an artist's life.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.
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Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.
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It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.
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If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
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What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
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Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...
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Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
