Quotes About Rejection

How to stay afloat amid that ocean of rejection is the second essential quality in moving others. I call this quality "buoyancy.

brain imaging studies show that the experience of physical pain and the experience of relational pain, like rejection, look very similar in terms of location of brain activity.

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

Nobody ever wants to hire me or offer me a job. I think I'm really talented; I really do. Like, people may not like my views about Muslims or whatever.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

I said no to Aston Villa because I was not ready. I said yes to Cardiff because I felt ready. But I was not.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

You have no idea how many bags of money I've had to turn down. But if something doesn't match up with our goals - if it's too violent, or even if it's just too boring - my father may have been a philosopher, but he was always an entertainer - we're not going to take the money.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

The first time I applied for a U.S. visa, I was rejected. I continued to apply again and again over the course of two years and finally received my visa on the ninth try.

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

Then there's the fact that losses tend to be multilayered. There's the actual loss (in my case, of Boyfriend), and the underlying loss (what it represents). That's why for many people the pain of a divorce is only partially about the loss of the other person; often it's just as much about what the change represents: failure, rejection, betrayal, the unknown, and a different life story than the one they'd expected.

Like me, the women I met with at the bar were embarrassed by the way they'd dismissed men in the past, evaluating every guy as either too-something or not-something-enough. These guys didn't fit our image of the person we thought we'd end up with, leaving us to end up with nobody

The inability to say no is largely about approval-seeking—people imagine that if they say no, they won't be loved by others.

Wasn't that just the theme of her life? Marginalized on the outskirts.

You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people… you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.

she threw herself at the black fence, shrieking, wondering why she'd been abandoned.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

If we live for people's approval, we will die by their rejection

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.