By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. – Laurell K. Hamilton
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. – James Lee Burke
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except – due to her rejection of Apollo’s affections – nobody would ever believe her warnings. – Kara Swisher
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. – Louise Brown
Social rejection doesn’t just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being. – Leonard Mlodinow
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing. – Jane Yolen
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own? – Joseph Murray
You can make your own way. It’s about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down. – Jennifer Armentrout
A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection. – Karolina Kurkova
Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic. – Paul Haggis
I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like. – Pippa Evans
There’s no way I’m going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It’s so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child? – Rosanna Arquette
My parents didn’t want me to be an actor. They didn’t think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right. – Rupert Penry-Jones
With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that. – Olivia DeJonge
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff. – Rose Byrne
You can’t be afraid of rejection. That was one of my problems when I was approaching girls: I was always afraid of what they were going to say to me. – Trevor Jackson
I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. – Skeet Ulrich
I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take ‘no’ one more time. I could not take the rejection. – Sufe Bradshaw
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. – Sylvester Stallone
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Steven Pinker
I wasn’t like, ‘I want to be famous.’ I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn’t chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that. – Sean Harris
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they’ve got worse. – Tom Hodgkinson
