Quotes About Rejection

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams........Sounds like this story has been already told by me?

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

I was called for 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge,' but I turned it down because I wasn't sure of its quality.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not really the kind of artist that we'd spend our money on.' They never saw the value of Too $hort and E-40.