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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Quotes by Warren Farrell

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Quotes by Walter Lippmann

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

Quotes by Vincent Rodriguez III

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Quotes by Vikas Swarup

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Quotes by Tommy Rettig

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

Quotes by Tomi Adeyemi

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.

Quotes by Sufe Bradshaw

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Quotes by Stuart Chase

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

Quotes by Sean Harris

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Quotes by Sasha Grey

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Quotes by Sara Zarr

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Quotes by Rupert Penry-Jones

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Quotes by Rose Byrne

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Quotes by Ron Paul

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

Quotes by Robert De Niro

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

Quotes by Pratibha Patil

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

Quotes by Pippa Evans

The first text I ever got was somebody breaking plans on a first date. That was, like, the worst way to be introduced to a new technology is with rejection.

Quotes by Paul Rust

Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.

Quotes by Paul Haggis

I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters.

Quotes by Paul G. Tremblay

But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.

Quotes by Owen Jones

With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

Quotes by Olivia DeJonge

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Quotes by Nora Roberts

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

Quotes by Nicholas Hoult

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

Quotes by Muqtada al Sadr

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

Quotes by Morgan Brittany

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

Quotes by Morgan Brittany

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

Quotes by Monica Raymund

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

Quotes by Molly Shannon

Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.

Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.

Quotes by Melanie Scrofano

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

Quotes by Matt Letscher

I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.

Quotes by MaryJanice Davidson

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

Quotes by Marlon James

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

Marilyn Monroe

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, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

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

Quotes by Louise Brown

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

Quotes by Lincoln Child

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

Quotes by Leah Pipes

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

Quotes by Laura Kightlinger

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Quotes by Larry Wall

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

Quotes by Lacey Chabert

I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

Quotes by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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.

Quotes by Karolina Kurkova

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

Quotes by Joseph Murray

Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

Quotes by John Yarmuth

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Quotes by Joey King

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

Quotes by Joe Keery

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Quotes by Jill Abramson

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Quotes by Jessica Biel

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

There is no one thing that can turn around a rejection. But there is one answer: begin talking to your customers who have already bought from you and discover why they bought.

Quotes by Jeffrey Gitomer

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

Quotes by Jason Robards

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

Quotes by Jasmine Guinness

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

Quotes by Janet Evanovich

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Quotes by James Lee Burke

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Quotes by Jack Canfield

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

Quotes by Isabel Lucas

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Quotes by Howard Barker

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Quotes by Holly Lisle

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

Quotes by Helena Blavatsky

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

Quotes by Heather Matarazzo

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

Quotes by Hassan Nasrallah

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.

Quotes by George M. Church

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

Quotes by George Benson

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Quotes by Gail Collins

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

Quotes by Fred Saberhagen

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

Quotes by Felicia Day

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

Quotes by Fatima Sana Shaikh

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

Quotes by Etel Adnan

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Quotes by Elliot Richardson

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

Quotes by Ellen Muth

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Quotes by Douglas Wood

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

Quotes by Dimebag Darrell

Everyone fears rejection.

Quotes by Derek Jeter

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Quotes by David Morrissey

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Quotes by David Antin

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

Quotes by David Arquette

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Quotes by Darin Strauss

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Quotes by Darin Strauss

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

Quotes by Daniel Craig

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

Quotes by Daniel Breaker

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Quotes by Dani Shapiro

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda

I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.

Quotes by Cullen Bunn

I experienced rejection numerous times.

Quotes by Coco Martin

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

Quotes by Christina Hendricks

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Quotes by Christina Ricci

Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.

Quotes by Chris Pavone

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Quotes by Carol Leifer

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Carl Sandburg

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

Quotes by Cameron Boyce

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Quotes by Caleb Cushing

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