#reject

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being yourself #chaos #learned #rejecting #you

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#fly #ground #helicopters #rejects #them

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' ↗

— David Hockney

#corner #doing #enough #exploited #i

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#classical #constantly #european #i #ideal

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#annihilation #any #attempts #believe #current

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#different #dozen #final #i #i tried

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#becomes #certain #course #elitism #feels

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#does #feel #give #may #others

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#dull #first #get #had #hindsight