Quotes About Acceptance

I hate being rejected.

I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.

I never went through that awkward period of being rejected by girls.

You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.

So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because I was rejected by the black community. They were like, 'You talk like a white girl.' People would call me an Oreo. All I wanted was acceptance.

I haven't really had any bad experiences coming out. No one's ever rejected me. There was me, running around in a sarong at the age of 16 - they probably knew.

When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.

But as an actor, you spend the majority of your life being rejected.

As I grow older, it's getting more and more important to me. I'm becoming conscious and learning to celebrate where I'm from and my roots. I think I rejected it to an extent when I was young, because it was different, and you want to fit in and look like other kids.

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Everyone fears rejection.

Rejection and I are old friends.

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

Rejection is just a part of life.

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.

Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.