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Quotes About Rejection

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!
~ Jordan Peterson
I've been in love with both men and women. I've been ghosted by both men and women.
~ Bari Weiss
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
~ Adrienne Rich
'Pretty Lady' is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.
~ Liam Gallagher
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
~ David Deutsch
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
~ Gustave Flaubert
We completely reject the theory of evolution.
~ John Ambrose Fleming
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
~ Ellen G. White
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
~ Havelock Ellis
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.
~ Rita Moreno
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
~ Johannes Tauler
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
~ Otis Blackwell
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
~ Pat Burns
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
~ James Altucher
The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
~ Luke Evans
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
~ Marc Warren
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
~ Emun Elliott
I have a very thick skin altogether - surprisingly, many actors are rather fragile, but I get that of the 10 million people watching an episode, probably 3 million hate me, and I'm comfortable with that.
~ Joshua Malina
Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
~ Maika Monroe
Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.
~ Maura Tierney