#rejection

Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations. ↗

— E.L. James

#dreams

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#been #good #handle #hard #here

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. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#denial #distinguish #general #impossible #mind

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#end #end of the tunnel #figure #how #light

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

— Carol Leifer

#fear #rejection #thing #work #worst

There's no point in dwelling on rejection. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#no point #point #rejection

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. ↗

— Barry Mann

#going #more #rejection #than #you

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection. ↗

— Barry Mann

#accept #got #really #rejection #you

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free

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