Rejection Quotes

• 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
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Together

• 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
  • Control
  • Technology
  • Progress

• I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

  

  George Benson
  • Right
  • Rejection

• We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.

  

  AnNa R. Rosenstolz
  • Afraid
  • Answer
  • Ask

• Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Pain
  • Memories
  • Singer

• 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
  • Great
  • Family
  • Why

• The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Flower
  • Rejection
  • Terms

• We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Dream

• I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Mistake
  • Rejection

• On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.

  

  C.D. Innes
  • Art
  • Term
  • Modern

• I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

  

  Sierra McCormick
  • Realize
  • Rejection
  • Casting

• You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Business
  • Rejection

• Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Great
  • Rejection

• My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Rejection

• ..the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Abstraction
  • Towards
  • Impressionistic

• 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
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Sweet

• Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Life
  • Why
  • Rejection

• I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

  Etel Adnan
  • Read
  • French
  • Boycott

• For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

  

  Faith Sullivan
  • Money
  • Earth
  • Rejection

• Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Rejection

• Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

  

  Joey King
  • Rejection

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