Quotes and Sayings About Rejection
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
-- Aaron Wildavsky -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.
-- Abbi Glines -
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
-- Albert Camus -
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
-- Albert Ellis -
"Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.
-- Alexandra Potter -
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
-- Anais Nin -
Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
-- Andrew Bacevich -
Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
-- Angela Cartwright -
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
-- Anita Diament -
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
-- Anita Shreve -
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.
-- Anna Maxted -
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
-- Anthony Doerr -
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
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-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
-- Audre Lorde -
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
-- Auguste Rodin -
There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
-- Barnes Wallis -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-- Barry Mann -
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
-- Barry Mann
