Rejection Quotes - Page 13

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

With stand-up you meet almost constant rejection. You put yourself out there with your thoughts and your ideas, and you think they're funny, and you hope other people think they're funny too. The only way you're going to find out is when you do it and what the reaction is going to be. So if you're not prepared for that, if you're not willing to go along with that, it's going to be a rough road. But beyond stand-up, in terms of auditioning for acting roles, you don't get most of the roles you audition for - you get a precious few.

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?