Quotes About Rejection

but between reject and not—reject. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so small that you should not reject the hypothesis. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so large that you should reject the hypothesis. But with any probability short of zero that you are wrong—certainty rather than uncertainty—you cannot accept a hypothesis.

she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.

I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.

Absolut norm, absolut moral, et absolut 'du skal' indebærer altid adskillelse fra livet og tab af selvkærlighed. Behovet for tryghed tilfredsstilles for en tid, men så vokser nedtryktheden. Uelskede, der håber at få kærlighed igennem deres egen underkastelse, genfinder sig selv i uelskethedens 'normale' følelse.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Zaaf anlar?nda, insan?n can s?k?c? bir vak?ay? tahsis edemeyerek umumile?tirmesi ve bir felâketi ayn? seri içindeki bütün menfi ihtimallere te?mil ederek hepsini hakikat gibi görmesi yüzünden ?inasi de, Neriman'?n arkada?? taraf?ndan davet edilememesinin hususî sebeplerini ara?t?ram?yor, bütün Darülelhan k?zlar?n?n kendisinden ho?lanmad???n? zannetmeye kadar var?yordu.

And now I realize: I was fired. They didn't disappear to watch football, or do drugs. They were getting rid of me.

To die outside a rejecting society, but with men one loved, seemed a fitting end in a time of apocalypse.

If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye

By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at my own expense. I sent these out as Christmas cards for Christmas, 1943.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

OH, YO JOVENCITO! Yo quería ser mi madre que me amaba, pero no quería amargarme a mí mismo. Y entonces fingía ser un joven pobre. No podía convencerme de que también en un burgués hubiera algo para amar: aquello que amaba mi madre en mí, puro y despreciado. Nada ha cambiado: me veo todavía pobre y joven; y amo sólo a aquéllos como yo. Los burgueses tienen un cuerpo maldito.

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

Cette suprême solitude du suicide, c'était encore trop pour moi ; je préférais mourir avec tout le monde, m'engouffrer dans la mort avec une pleine charretée de copains, si dédaignés, si méprisés l'instant d'avant.

I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on 'America's Got Talent'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be 'found' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.

I went to almost all of the agencies in New York when I first visited. A lot of them wanted to sign me but also kind of indirectly were telling me that I needed to change in some way. Some directly told me that I wouldn't be a model unless I changed the way that my body looked.

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

People are going to like what they like, and they're going to be vocal about what they don't like.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.