Quotes About Rejection

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Pizza makes me throw up!

You'd think that being that guy who always has pizza to give away would make you really popular with the neighbors, but I've had people turn down free pizza after I'd offered it to them too many times.

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I had plenty of people pass on 'Every Little Thing.'

Some people have never fancied me, but there have been plenty others who have backed me.

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren't one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn't think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn't sure it was going to happen for me.

You don't have to be too clever to know that if Barcelona loaned me to another team, it's because they have little interest in me.

On a personal level, I have no hard feelings towards the clubs that didn't want me.

When I was making a comeback we were talking to Roy Jones but he wasn't having any of it.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.