Rejection Quotes - Page 18

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

Only do it if you absolutely have to, because you are gonna eat rejection every single day. And it's not easy eating that rejection every single day because it hurts. You have to learn not to take it personally. And that is a very hard lesson to learn.

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

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.

Originally I had a fear of rejection at the auditions, which is a lack of self-confidence ultimately. Now I have a production company and when you can look behind the scenes at the casting process, you know it's not about rejection. It might have been the most amazing performance ever, but if the person is too tall, too short, too brown, too white, has blond hair or whatever it is, then not getting the gig may have nothing to do with the performance. You have to learn to treat auditioning as matter-of-factly as drinking a glass of water.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.