I’m big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there’s sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
But on the extremist side I didn’t get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
Rejection and I are old friends.
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
For my first role, I had to audition five times. I’ve gotten a lot of no’s and rejections. But I just had to keep working hard. I took classes; I worked on my craft and continued to work with an acting coach and just didn’t give up on myself.
You can make your own way. It’s about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
What is rejection? Rejection is something that you try and you don’t get.
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn’t to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don’t. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they’d much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
When I was younger, I could be pretty bitter. I still have moments, but I think I’ve gotten pretty good at rejection.
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It’s hard. If a joke doesn’t get a laugh, that’s instant rejection. And that’s mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.
When I was 19, 20 I faced rejections. When I turned 20 I signed my south film and by the time I was 23, I had done three south films. I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance or act.
So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it’s also been very hard to handle rejection.
There isn’t an actor alive who hasn’t been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’
I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
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.
Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I’ve collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
I had my share of rejections.
There’s no point in dwelling on rejection.
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’
It’s 90 percent rejection, being an actor.
The major reason for Keynes’s rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn’t survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn’t realize how good they were.
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.
Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn’t instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don’t feel like I’m a prodigy or something.
I had this fear of rejection. I had this inner unworthiness.
You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don’t get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.
Rejection is part of the process, so you can’t let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, ‘Sheltering Rain,’ was translated into 11 languages.
I need work. I still audition for work. I don’t get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.
I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I’d put it off until then because I didn’t feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything.
I’ve had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected – the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
It’s the rejection that is hard. It’s not the interviewing that’s hard. It’s not the photography that’s hard. It’s, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
I don’t know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don’t have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald’s, and the rest is history.
There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful – they use nice paper.
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That’s what keeps me going.
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
I’ve struggled so much in my life and I’ve seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into a film.
You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Rejection is never personal, so don’t let it consume you.
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.
