Rejection Quotes - Page 27

• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Mistress, Favors, Young

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.

  Martha Beck

  Love You, Heart, Demand

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• That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Men, Humanity

  Herman Melville (1996). “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities”, p.296, Penguin

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• New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

  Chris Carter

  Ocean, Japan, Whales

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• Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"

  Matthew Kelly

  Character, Commitment, Destiny

  Matthew Kelly (2004). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

  William Boyd

  Tolerate, Humankind

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.

  David Mitchell

  Moving, Writing, Garden

  "Once upon a life" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

  John Mayer

  Perfect, Flawless, Not Impressed

  Song: Comfortable

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• Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Disappointment, Grateful

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Three, Able

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mind, Growth, Scientific Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, People, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Destiny, Redirection, Course Correction

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• To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.

  Bas van Fraassen

  Mean, Science, Reality

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• Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Believe, Persistence

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

  Stephen Covey

  Judging, Understanding, Individual

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• I have said no
  To everything, in order to get at myself.
  I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Mud, Moonlight

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Knopf

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• A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Writing, Style, Results

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• Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

  P. D. James

  Infanticide

  P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Exercise, Science, Discovery

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• Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Knowing, Tolerance, Suffering

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

  Max Anders

  Affection, Mark

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• I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Strong, Views

  "Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture". Book by Amber L. Davisson, 2013.

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Discouraged

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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