Quotes About Persistence

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

I've gotten rejected a lot.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.

I was rejected from 'American Idol' - and I'm happier for it now.

When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.