Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Carol Leifer

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

Aya Cash

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

Bob Gill

Be stimulated by rejection

Chazz Palminteri

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

Parris Chang

The rejection of Aegis won't look like it's a 'no' forever,

Ashton Kutcher

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

Auguste Rodin

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

Brian Tracy

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Alan Kay

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Bob Lewis

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Benoit Mandelbrot

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Edgar Friedenberg

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Yasser Arafat

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

Russell Potts

This is an artificial, 15 percent criteria, ... The whole arrogance and smugness of establishing this threshold, it's a discrimination issue and a fairness issue.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without worship, we go about miserable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Edith Wharton

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

Diablo Cody

This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees, because I worship you guys. I’m learning from you every day.

Bill Johnson

We always become like the one we worship!

Bill Johnson

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

Carl Sagan

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Art Buchwald

I worship the quicksand he walks in.