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.

Diablo Cody

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Denis Waitley

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Bill Nighy

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Cass McCombs

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

David Tudor

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Gretchen Rubin

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

John Riley

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

Mike Turnan

We're starting to get the concept and believe in it. We have players filling their roles off the bench, allowing our starters a little rest. Everyone is accepting their roles.

Nelson Fields

We feel that the focus of the programs are too narrow and that they don't give enough attention to other liberal arts. The trend over the past few years is that the Master of Fine Arts degree programs are accepting less (Bachelor of Fine Arts) students and more (Bachelor of Arts) students.

Madeline Albright

accepting the terms of the military, technical agreement and by abiding by it.

Atharva Veda

Accepting the Command of the Lord's Will, I have found total peace; the home of suffering has been destroyed.

John Salazar

Accepting the blame and putting politics aside would have been the true sign of leadership, ... (President Bush) has taken responsibility - Congress needs to do the same.