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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Persistence

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• The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Heart, Love Is

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• Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rain, Writing, August

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Pain, Loneliness, Healing

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• That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Medicine, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.440

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• Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Be stimulated by rejection

  Bob Gill

  Determination, Design

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• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Arrogance, Worship, Reason

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Nfl, Overcoming

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• I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again. This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason. Let go.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Letting Go, Believe, Opportunity

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

  David Antin

  Ideas, Entertainment, Form

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• Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.

  Jacques Vallee

  Stupid, Teaching, Moon

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• The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Good Life, Poverty

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.180, Penguin

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Firsts, Facts

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• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Perception, Wish, Internals

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.79, Routledge

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

  David Foster Wallace

  Connections, Painful

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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• The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Successful, Doors, Differences

  "Former Cover Model Ashley Zarlin Gets Cheeky With Us". Interview with Clara Lemon, localemagazine.com. July 4, 2015.

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• Despite all the types of rejection, the most important part is to keep on moving forward and to not give up. If things are getting bad, take a break and seek out people for their opinion on what you may do to improve your presentation. In the end, it is all a numbers game and it does become a lot easier. It stops becoming this big ordeal and is just part of the job.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Giving Up, Moving

  "Understanding Rejection From Galleries". markedwardadams.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

  Pat McBride

  Heaven, Helping, Problem

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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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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

  Ellen Willis

  Men, Feelings, Balance

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press

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• Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

  Chuck Todd

  Reality, Media, Bias

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