Quotes tagged ‘Rejection’

“We sometimes treat people in a way we’d never want to be treated ourselves. And in the process, we normalize these behaviors.”

— Ben Kassoy, elitedaily.com

“Mosquito…had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. ‘How much longer do you think you will live?’ she asked. ‘You are already a skeleton.’ Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“There’s this weird idea that success is a doorway, and once open, the path beyond is straight and clear. But success is just a moment, a step. The forward road comes from continuing to try—and fail. Failure and rejection don’t cease to be a part of it, unless you stop trying to grow/reach/make/move.”

— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com

“Everyone gets rejected. From a story idea that gets quashed to the pitch that doesn’t resonate to the deal that falls apart. Thing is, successful/established creators shrug it off. A creative career is a marathon, not a sprint.”

— J.T. Ellison, twitter.com

“We all get rejected. We all get left out of cool projects. We all get ignored. We also torture ourselves wondering about the circumstances of rejection or exclusion. But... The spotlight can't always be on us. Part of being a pro is figuring out how to not take that personally.”

— Scott Lynch, twitter.com

“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Fai…”

— Trevor Noah, amazon.com

“Last night, a certifiable fox hit on me, and I did not respond. I masturbated furiously afterwards, but only after I'd rejected her.”

— Shane Kosakowski, Franklin Hardy, Jimmy Shive-Overly, Chris Geere, imdb.com

“If you live for their acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.”

— Lecrae, twitter.com

“Why do you think Vladimir Putin is riding around Russia on a horse with no shirt on? It's because some girl rejected him in high school.”

— Justin W. Lo, Ryan Decker, Dan Jeannotte, imdb.com

“Most of the time, rejection is not even about you.”

— Elisa Gabbert, electricliterature.com

“There was a time when a man would have wait weeks for a rejection to come by mail. Now the Internet delivers big, concentrated blobs of disappointment. With the click of a mouse.”

— Joseph Dougherty, Ezra Fitz, Ian Harding, imdb.com

“Gemma: Clay's never gonna...want to be inside something that's been ripped up like me. Tara: Jesus Christ, Gemma, Clay loves you. Gemma: Love don't mean shit. Men need to own their pussy. His has been violated. He'll find another. It's what they do.”

— Kurt Sutter, Jack LoGiudice, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

“What is the ultimate rejection? When you’re having a wank and your hand falls asleep.”

— Jindabyne1, reddit.com

“I got rejected by a bald woman. A bald woman rejected me. Heh, you like that one? A woman with no prospects and no hair told me that I wasn't her type. Apparently, Baldie likes a slimmer guy.”

— Carol Leifer, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“She dumped me! She rolled right over me! Said I was a hipster doofus. Am I a hipster doofus?”

— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“I do very poorly with new women because fat is currently out. I’m sure Orson Welles doesn't get laid that much either. One of the few areas of displeasure and pain to me is being a fatty. Fat people are sexually isolated in our society and are subjected to tremendous rejection.”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“Even the best of us get rejected. It's what you do about it that counts.”

— Daniel Dae Kim, twitter.com

“You (the Anabaptists) make the love of God common to all men, and that do we constantly deny.”

— John Knox, amazon.com

“Most relevant to our story, activity in several of these brain regions has been correlated with the craving of cocaine addicts and other drugs. In short, as our brain scanning data show, these discarded lovers are still madly in love with and deeply attached to their rejecting partner. They are in p…”

— Dr. Helen Fisher, nautil.us