Rejection Quotes

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

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

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

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

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

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