Rejection Quotes - page 2

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field. (Elaine Paige)
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease. View quote
Radhanath Swami
Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth. View quote
Leigh Brackett
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate. View quote
Laura Riding
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. View quote
Albert Camus
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. View quote
Robert De Niro
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. View quote
Steven Pressfield
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. View quote
Linus Pauling
If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection. (Neil Strauss)
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. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it. View quote
Dwight Macdonald
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
Probably nothing strengthened the impetus of socialists toward bureaucratic centralization more than their implacable rejection of economic controls in general and the market in particular. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
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. View quote
Warren Adler
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day. View quote
Benjamin Percy
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection. View quote
Jack Canfield
I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. View quote
Janet Evanovich
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own? (Joseph Murray)
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. View quote
Bo Bennett
If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. View quote
Anita Diament
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi