Top 1200 Constant Rejection Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

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.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

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

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have a learned faculty whose job it is to attempt to prevent the incursion of foreign words into the language. I love editing Harry with Arthur Levine, my American editor-the differences between 'British English' (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and 'American English' (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me.

If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

Very early in my life, I realised that it is okay getting rejected. Sometimes, we take rejection too personally.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

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

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual... that's nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you've been taught that you are not a human like other people.

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.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

I believe that if one can understand one's false personality or ego, then they can develop self-awareness and the manifesting of that self-awareness is leadership. Such a leader sets up the mechanisms within which creativity can flourish, and managers turn this into innovations in the marketplace and society. But it's never as clear-cut as I'm making it sound. It's much more dynamic, chaotic and fascinating in the way it plays out. That's why people have to operate more from their inner essence; it's the other constant that copes with the legendary constant of change.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.