Rejection Quotes
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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.
Maura Tierney
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
David Antin
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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.
Emil Cioran
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The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
Darin Strauss
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
Brian Tracy
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Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
J. B. Jackson
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
James Lee Burke
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Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.
David Gates Bread
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The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.
Leah Pipes
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Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle.
Elizabeth Flock
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
Melissa Bank
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Be stimulated by rejection.
Bob Gill
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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.
Bharati Mukherjee
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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.
William Blackstone
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A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
E. L. Konigsburg
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As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .
C. I. Scofield
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
Longchenpa
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
Warren Adler
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The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
John Paul DeJoria
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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.
Barack Obama
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Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.
Marcia Angell