Rejection Quotes
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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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It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
Mary Beth Patterson
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
John David Washington
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
Ted Dekker
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Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
Kevin Feige
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Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
Leigh Brackett
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When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
David Morrissey
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."
Dick Vitale
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Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
Angela Robinson
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Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
Klaus Schwab
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The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual... that's nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you've been taught that you are not a human like other people.
John Grant
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There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
Carol Vorderman