Rejection Quotes - Page 18

• In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Wish, Creation

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Disappointment

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• We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

  Sandra Oh

  Strong, Actors, Needs

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• Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

  Brie Larson

  Real, Feelings, Trying

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood — and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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• The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract... The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

  Ron Paul

  Equal Pay, Names, Ideas

  "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years". Book by Ron Paul, 1987.

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• Everyone fears rejection.

  Derek Jeter

  "Interview with Yankee star Derek Jeter — Our Hottie of the Month" by Nicole Blades, www.womenshealthmag.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.

  Sarah Steele

  Thinking, Giving, Joy

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Party, Democracy

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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

  Pippa Evans

  Men, Blood, Ambulance

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Thinking, Dedication, Important

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• We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Pain, Smart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections were to pile before me, a typical young writer, in an implacable mountain. But I was on my way.

  Vera Nazarian

  Struggle, Adventure, Ideas

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.

  Nick Jonas

  Team, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Self, Agents

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• Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race and gender privilege as the root of all evil, while ignoring the role played by dogmatic ideologies held by all genders. And it is unfalsifiable - to its adherents, criticism and rejection of the theory actually demonstrate its truth, by showing how deeply we all have internalized our oppression.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Sex, Confused, Fighting

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

  Aya Cash

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Acceptance, Ideas

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

  Melanie Griffith

  Strong, Block, Order

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

  Melanie Griffith

  Actresses, Faces, Your Face

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Success, Business, Commitment

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• Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

  Thornton Wilder

  Skeletons, Water, Criticism

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Heart, Resistance

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

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• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Numbers, Expression

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• There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Suffering, World

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

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