#rejection

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. ↗

— Billy Joel

#fool #i #less #man #more

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. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#becoming #deal #fact #first #girl

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. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#cake #did #drawers #full #going

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#occupier #our #rejection #resistance

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

— Sylvester Stallone

#bugle #ear #get #going #i

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#agent #enough #finally #find #fortunate

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#day #deal #experience #get #go

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. ↗

— Amy Tan

#always #been #brother #deaths #failure

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#fallow #fertile #rejection #times #tremendous

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#either #holiday #looked #may #prolonged