Rejection Quotes - Page 20

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

  Marlo Thomas

  Wave, Fertile, Amount

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• Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Ideas, Adoption

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Acceptance, Ideas, Adoption

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• There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

  Barnes Wallis

  Acceptance, Men, Adoption

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• There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Organization, Ideas

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• Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Acceptance, Opposites, Two

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.163, Tara Publishing

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Growing Up, Player

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• As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

  Tucker Max

  Girl, Guy, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for a while and that's where I fell back in love with music. Just being isolated out there, eliminating all these opinions that I endured during my time in LA and the music industry, all the rejection, it was really hard on me and my creativity. So by isolating myself in the wilderness, I was able to fall back in love with music. It was always ingrained in me, always in my blood, but I just lost it for a minute.

  Skylar Grey

  Fall, Creativity, Opinion

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Mind, Today

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• It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Overcoming, Doing What You Want

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• Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Heart, Resistance

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Goodbye, Grieving, Leaving

  Song: Different Drum

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Break, Spare Parts

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

  David Dellinger

  Definitions, Arms, Disarmament

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• My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".

  Grant Morrison

  Art, Dad, School

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• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Butterfly, Night, Long

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• I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

  Howard Barker

  Play, Theatre, Theater

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• 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.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kids, Criticism

  "'How Am I Doing?' The One Question That Can Change All Of Your Relationships" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspirational, Self, Trying

  Song: Low Self Opinion

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• Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

  Tom Petty

  Drunk, Honey, Walks

  Song: Rebels

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

  George Harrison

  Heart, Looks, Want

  Song: The Day The World Gets 'Round

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