Quotes by Rejection When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit. Don Rickles rejectionmotherschool What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them. Doris Grumbach retreatrejectionsolitude Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story. Dorothea Brande rejectionfeelingsrunning My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. Dorothy Day rejectionmovementparty Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. Dottie Walters perseverancerejectionmotivational The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it. Dwight Macdonald rejectioncharacterwar A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry. E. L. Konigsburg rejectionsarcasticletters Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious. E. Lockhart impactrejectionappreciated These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. Edmund White rejectedrejectionhurt The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking. Edward de Bono rejectionacceptancethinking Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection. Edward Albee rejectionacceptancematter Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year. Edward Kennedy rejectiontoolsyears Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field. Elaine Paige rejectionfitfields We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us. Elizabeth Lesser siblingrejectiontrying When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Elizabeth I mistressrejectionfavors But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge? Elizabeth Lesser what-ifrejectionpain It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' Ellen Muth rejectionself-esteemfather 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 rejectionfeelingsmen Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show? Elvis Presley rejectiongirlwant To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. Emile M. Cioran rejectionacceptingviolence«345678910111213»
