Rejection Quotes - Page 10

• You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Eye, Way

  Song: Different Drum

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• Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

  Richard Pascale

  Learning, Knowledge, Discovery

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.112, Harvard Business Press

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Self, Hatred, Missing

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• 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

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, People, Criticism

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.131, Criss Jami

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• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

  J. B. Jackson

  Reform, Restoration, Incentives

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• I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

  Dani Shapiro

  Disappointment, Order, Careers

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• Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hurt, Moving, Moments

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• Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Heart, Thinking, My Heart

  Billy Ray Cyrus, Todd Gold (2013). “Hillbilly Heart”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Linus Pauling

  Effort, World, Morality

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• Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

  Alain de Botton

  Sex, Believe, Would Be

  Alain de Botton, The School of Life (2012). “How To Think More About Sex”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

  Dan Hill

  Hurt, Lying, Love You

  Song: Sometimes When We Touch

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

  Kelly Clarkson

  Heart, Rejected, Feels

  Song: Miss Independent

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

  Elvis Presley

  Girl, Want, Watches

  Song: Didja' Ever, Album: G.I. Blues

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• The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, People, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

  Robert Montgomery

  Kidneys, Able, Middle

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  Sophia Loren

  Encouragement, Couple, Writing

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• I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Tiny, Immensity

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

  Patti Smith

  Baby, Giving, Watches

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• I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Giving, Looks, Arms

  Song: I'm Goin' Down, Album: Born in the U.S.A., 1984

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• I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

  Rod Stewart

  Bye, Hello, Said

  Song: You're in My Heart

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• I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

  Rod Stewart

  Want, Ass, Ignore Me

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• We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Mean, Civilization

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