Rejection Quotes - Page 11

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.