Quotes About Rejection

The thing was, if I had a bad game, I was 'the Man United reject.' If I had a good game, it was 'Man United star on loan.' And I just thought, 'I don't need that anymore.' One minute, I was hero; the next minute, I was zero. I just didn't need it. I'd rather just play football.

I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.

I made myself into what I thought was a big-time player, and nobody in L.A. seemed to care or believe I was any good. When I started hearing I wouldn't play in college, I would just let it simmer inside me and then be like, 'Okay. That's what you think? Okay.' The number zero was the only way I could express that.

I had zero interest in banking, but the mountainous pile of legal training contract rejections forced me to look elsewhere. As a malleable graduate, I, as many students do, took whatever I could get.

There is no safe zone now: whether it's commercial or experimental films, the audience wants content. Otherwise, they reject the film.

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

It circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen publishers, and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I always say, I try and be 100 percent myself all the time. So if I'm rejected, it just hurts that little bit less because at least I was myself.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.