Rejected Quotes - Page 5

• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  Patricia Ireland

  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Heart, Rejection, Feels

  Song: Miss Independent

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• The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

  David Deutsch

  Majority, Tests, Failing

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

  Sean Durkin

  Morning, Prayer, Kids

  "'Marta Marcy May Marlene' and Mister Sean Durkin". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com.

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• Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Fit, Trenches

  Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Accepted, Accumulation, Unconscious

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

  Jonathan Ive

  Ideas, Design

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• I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Ajax

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• Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Advice, Ignorant, Needs

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.65, Lulu.com

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• I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Self, Rejection, Records

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• Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

  Mark Taimanov

  Success, Character, Two

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• The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Struggle, Long

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• I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

  Courtney Love

  Nervous, Disappointing, Presses

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Taken, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.57, editionNEXT.com

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• I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

  Sandra Bullock

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

  "America asks, Sandra Bullock answers" by Kate Meyers, www.nbcnews.com. August 05, 2010.

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• You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

  Paul Zindel

  Sex, Quality, Pairs

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• And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.

  James Van Fleet

  Ideas, Good Company, Let Me

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• One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

  Lester Thurow

  Long, Assumption, Economics

  Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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• The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

  Willie Soon

  Hallmark, Hypothesis, Evidence

  "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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• In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

  Bill Ackman

  Successful, Order, Bother

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• ..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ("which may just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source.

  Linus Pauling

  Running, Dark, Age

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• It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

  Girl, Paper, Want

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• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it.
  “Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking
  great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Taken, Heart, Views

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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