Rejection Quotes - Page 20

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relationship with them, and it wasn't like a rejection or anything, but they couldn't understand why I was going to India.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

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.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.