Rejection Quotes

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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of… — Alasdair MacIntyre
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was… — Lisa Alther
I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part… — Simon Van Booy
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that… — Bob Proctor
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris
The world doesnâ€™t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely… — Betsy Lerner
The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for… — Brian Koppelman
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rejection is good for the soul. — Eva Mendes
It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the… — Gene Robinson
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. — Jacob Bronowski
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our… — Alvin Lustig
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice… — Stephen F. Hayes
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not… — David Hilbert
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The… — Robert Henri
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. — Rabindranath Tagore
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation,… — Albert Camus
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely… — Seth Godin
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism,… — Mahmoud Abbas
Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus. — Robert Herjavec

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