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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

  Jack Canfield

  Next, Rejects, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Sep 07, 2012

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• Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

  T. B. Joshua

  Silence

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Doe

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Dani Shapiro

  Disappointment, Order, Careers

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• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Frustration, Too Much, Making Money

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• Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

  Chuck Todd

  Reality, Media, Bias

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• Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

  Ellen Willis

  Men, Feelings, Balance

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press

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• I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Divorce, Feels, Ultimate

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• Despite all the types of rejection, the most important part is to keep on moving forward and to not give up. If things are getting bad, take a break and seek out people for their opinion on what you may do to improve your presentation. In the end, it is all a numbers game and it does become a lot easier. It stops becoming this big ordeal and is just part of the job.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Giving Up, Moving

  "Understanding Rejection From Galleries". markedwardadams.com. March 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Dream, America, Race

  "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mirrors, Hatred, Faces

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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, Records, World

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• Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mother, Children, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

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

  Barry Mann

  Able, Accepting

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• In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Struggle, Men, Self

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• 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.

  Marlo Thomas

  Jobs, Sadness, Loss

  "Marlo Thomas Remembers 'Growing Up Laughing'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 2, 2010.

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• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Science

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

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Loneliness, Men, Illness And Death

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Safety, Retreat, Subordination

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

  John J. McCloy

  Apology, Redress, Rejected

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• It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

  Patrick Stewart

  Christmas, Generosity, Giving

  "Televised chestnuts: Christmas present". www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

  Edward Kennedy

  Years, Tools, Use

  "Bush re-nominates Pickering". www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Administration

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• The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

  Mila Kunis

  Competition, Pressure, Downfall

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