Top 1200 Rejection Letters Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

Rejection and I are old friends.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

Everyone fears rejection.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Don't take rejection personally.

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

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

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

Be stimulated by rejection

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson - Pluto is a Planet!'

Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

Rejection is just a part of life.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

I think it's important to visit people in prison. And if you know anyone in prison, I would encourage you very much to visit them. They're a good audience! I always get good letters from prisoners. I don't usually answer them because I have a lot going on in my life, but I get some really good ones, I get some really good letters from prison.

One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party. He loved to sing. He loved to have fun. And he wrote beautiful letters, just as her father did, which - alas and alack - Eleanor Roosevelt destroyed. But she refers to his beautiful letters. And she was charmed by him.

Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

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

I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.

Acting is a life of rejection.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

Rejection is the natural course of things.

Successful people reject rejection.

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.

Rejection is good for the soul.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Rejection reveals your character.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.