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Rejection |
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Quotations
 | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 19 likes |
 | Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 10 likes |
 | How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 10 likes |
 | Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 8 likes |
 | If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | I’m busy right now, can I ignore you some other time? — Anonymous 6 likes |
 | Once you label me you negate me. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 4 likes |
 | The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 3 likes |
 | Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 2 likes |
 | Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 2 likes |
| What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author (was against Greek philosophy) 1 likes |
 | Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments. |
| If the Press did not exist, we would not have to invent it. |
 | She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. |
 | Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I'm looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling. |
 | I’ve discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.” — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing, but as a wrong address. |
Personal Stories
 | Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Do not touch me. Noli me tangere. — Gospel of John ‐ 20:17 (from the Vulgate; words of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection) 27 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I can answer you in two words: im-possible! — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor (rejecting the idea of a steamboat) 2 likes |
 | We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. — Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 2 likes |
Special Quotes
 | ¡Ya Basta! Enough is enough! — Motto of various Latin American insurgent groups, incl. Zapatistas in Mexico 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair. — from the film Cabin in the Cotton (1932) 6 likes |
 | On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place. — from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 4 likes |
