Rejection Quotes - Page 33

• Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

  E. Lockhart

  Impact, Appreciated, Notorious

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books

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• This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

  Abbi Glines

  Going Away, Care, Want

  Abbi Glines (2012). “While it Lasts”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

  Greg Behrendt

  Men, Excuse, Polite

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Ignorance, Editors

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• ...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

  Brian Stableford

  Coffee, Writing, Important

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• Successful people reject rejection.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  Felicia Day

  Heart, Mean, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. Im working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Dad, Heart, Thinking

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• Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

  Rose Byrne

  Actors, Lessons, Stuff

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• Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Music, Broken Heart, Aphrodisiac

  "Song: "Forbidden Love" (Album: "Bedtime Stories")". 1994.

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• 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.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Discrimination, Argument

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• Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

  Robert Henri

  Acceptance, Worry, Gone

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

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• The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Sweet, Art

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• Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

  Robert Herjavec

  Viruses, Sensitive, Destructive

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• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Acceptance, Mind

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• To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.

  Ryan Blair

  Successful, Criticism, Pressure

  FaceBook post by Ryan Blair from Jun 22, 2013

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• The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

  Mike Myers

  Should Have, Careers, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Insecure, Circles

  "Taylor Swift: Whole Lotta Love" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. February 11, 2013.

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• As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .

  C. I. Scofield

  Acceptance, Grace, Fruit

  C. I. Scofield (1998). “The Old ScofieldRG Study Bible, KJV, Standard Edition”, p.1115, Oxford University Press

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• When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.

  Jean Giraud

  Struggle, Editors, Effort

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• Theres nothing to fear but
  fears themselves, such as monsters,
  rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
  monsters, and oxford commas.

  Craig Benzine

  Oxford, Monsters, Poisoning

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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