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.

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.

Brian Tracy

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

Britney Spears

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

Daniel Craig

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Clint Eastwood

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Alexander MacLaren

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

Anthony Doerr

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.

David Foster Wallace

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

David Hawkins

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

Albert Camus

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Thomas Huxley

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

Robert Montgomery

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Robert Herjavec

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

Tony Robbins

You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

Tony Blair

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

Romano Prodi

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

Vicente Fox

We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.

Sol Stern

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Steven Morrissey

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Ray Bradbury

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

John Whisenant

We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

John Robert Seeley

It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

Marilyn vos Savant

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.