Top 1200 Constant Rejection Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.

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.

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

I have sort of weaned myself off of reading my own reviews, which is a constant struggle.

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

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.

It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

It's a constant progression, and as long as you're constantly striving to be better, you're headed in the right direction.

Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.