There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story andor talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story andor talent.
When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relationship with them, and it wasn't like a rejection or anything, but they couldn't understand why I was going to India.
An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.
You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.
Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
. . . the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.
For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.