Quotes About Rejection

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

We're taught at an early age that we're not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it.

A smile flickered over his lips, but found no purchase

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.