#rejection

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. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#gigantic #had #i #kid #life

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #everyone #extremist #get #i

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

— Morgan Brittany

#people #performer #personal #put #reject

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

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. ↗

— Emily Watson

#back #bad #career #early #forget