Rejection Quotes

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

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

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

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

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

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.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

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

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.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

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

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

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

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

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.

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

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.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

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

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

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

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

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.

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.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

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.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

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

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

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

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

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.