Rejection Quotes - Page 12

• Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

  Laura Riding

  Mind, Body, Resistance

  "In Defence of Anger". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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• Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.

  Jaron Lanier

  Demand, Seven, Bios

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• Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Effort, Intellectual

  "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.

  Joseph Beuys

  Attitude, Crazy, Creativity

  "Beuys: Tracce in Italia". Book by Germano Celant, 1978.

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• I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.

  Mark Evelyn Heath

  Art, Long, Laughing

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• Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

  David Hawkins

  Addresses, Global Warming, Program

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• I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.

  Rob Schneider

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

  Darrell Bock

  Jesus, Reflection, Stories

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• It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Strong, Important, Needs

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• No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Judging, Evil, Personality

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• As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

  Robert Draper

  Grind, Building, Journalist

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

  Lauren Mackler

  Dream, Fear, Live Life

  "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

  Yasser Arafat

  East, Jerusalem, Jordan

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• To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Violence, Accepting, Renounce

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• Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

  James Cameron

  Feelings, Target, Matter

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• Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Son, Men

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• An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

  Georges Bataille

  Facts, Intention, Rejects

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.27, A&C Black

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• People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

  Jeremy Piven

  Hard Work, People, Fuel

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Way, Fifty, Lovers

  Song: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

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• What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

  Dionne Warwick

  Kissing, Pneumonia, Phones

  "A Divorcee Wonders Where to Fling Her Ring". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 20, 2007.

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• Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

  David Gates

  Goodbye, Next Day, Notes

  Song: Took The Last Train, Album: Goodbye Girl, 1978

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• You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Eye, Way

  Song: Different Drum

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• You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

  Dan Hill

  Hurt, Lying, Love You

  Song: Sometimes When We Touch

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