Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse then a rejected high five in front of strangers........... ;) Lolzzz :D — Archie Copy Share Image
“One does not hold their breath and say that they are breathing; Just the same, One cannot advance in life and remain… — Gillian Duce Copy Share Image
A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected for something better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather,… — Ayako Miura Copy Share Image
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes,… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“I confidently walked up to the counter, and his friends moved to the side to let me through. I handed him the… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
