#rejection

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. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#autograph #because #box #day #going

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

— Stuart Chase

#attitude #laws #natural #natural laws #rejection

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #impulsive #into #lest #me

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 think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view. ↗

— Michael York

#believe #destiny #detours #enjoy #i

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

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#rejection #love

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#publishing #rejections #fame

Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#break-ups #hurt #lovers #rejection #sadness