Quotes About Rejection

You have welcomed an incubus into your bed yet you shun me. You're pathetic.

Sexual partners who dropped you without a word caused the most horrible of self-doubts.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

At every turn, give five good reasons for saying no.

Who knows Bob's name in this outfit—let alone his lame child's? ("The last place I worked for, I was let go," recalls the bank teller. "One of my friends stopped by and asked where I was at. They said, 'She's no longer with us.' That's all. I vanished.") It's nothing personal, really. Dickens's people have been replaced by Beckett's.

I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, "hurt feelings" is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

It seemed that all her life she'd been seeking someone's approval: Father's, Grandmother's... hell, all of society's. Well, she was through. She hadn't asked for anything this time—not a blessed thing—but even that wasn't good enough.

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

There was a solid six-month period where I was going out on castings and I was laughed out of the room because I'm much more petite than other models.

'Queen of Hearts' is one I'm really proud of because I worked so hard on it, and then I was told it wasn't good enough to be included on an Allman Brothers album. That directly led me to go into the studio and cut 'Laid Back,' my first solo release. So 'Queen of Hearts' is special to me.

Some people like me, some people don't. It is what it is.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.