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I had my share of rejections.
Steven Ford /
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I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.
Matthew Morrison / Actor
Way More Than
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson / Artist
Innovation
Rejection
Thinking
Great Think I Think
Innovations
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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
Andrew Sean Greer / Novelist
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I faced innumerable rejections and resorted to surgery to improve my looks and appearance.
Rakhi Sawant /
Appearance
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
Jon Ronson / Journalist
Extremist
Rejection
Sides
Talk To Me
Agreed
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Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Meg Cabot / Author
Funny
Famous
Motivation
Sea
Rejections
Save
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
Anita Diament / Author
Explaining
Historical
Historical Fiction
Nice
Rejection
Sell
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I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Jobs
Rejection
Would Be
Ratio
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When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.
Naveen Tewari /
Venture
Capitalists
Funds
Raising
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As an entrepreneur, you're going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.
Naveen Tewari /
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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Danielle Steel / Novelist
Fortunate
Long
Manuscripts
Rejection
Revising
Series
Trying
Usual
Good Enough Long
Good Long Way
Agent
Finally
Long Series
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There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Thomas J. Sargent / Economist
Class
Danger
Likelihood
Models
Opponents
Rejection
Ratio
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I need work. I still audition for work. I don't get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.
Bojana Novakovic / Actress
Work Hard Work Hard
Audition
Nowhere
Offered
Rejections
Work Hard
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I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.
Timothy Morton /
Chuck
Letters
Absolute
Landed
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I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.
Judy Blume / Film Writer
Accepted
Green
Middle
Publication
Began
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Seriously
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
Daniel H. Pink / Author
Expertise
Industry
Natural
Selling
Talent
Ultimate
Success Best Your
Either
Rejections
Sales
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I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
Lily Collins / Film Actress
Handle
Lying
Deciding
Properly
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It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.
Rick Riordan / Author
Best
Believe In Yourself
Easy
Practice
Yourself
Started
Lots
Write
First
Do Your Best
Give
Got
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Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.
Melinda Clarke / Actress
Auditions
Busy
Landed
Misses
Near
Pilot
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Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
Shirley Henderson / Actress
Brave
Criticism
Fool
Rejection
Youth
Drive
Suppose
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I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
Robert Englund / Actor
Actors
Auditions
People
Rejection
Good Business I Am
Business Good I Am
Quit
Rejections
Survive
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I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
Beth Ditto / Singer-Songwriter
Clear Conscience
Conscience
Work Myself People
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Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Categories
Marxism
Excluding
Opinions
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For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not well-sculpted as an actor because I was getting a lot of rejections. I stopped acting and focused on casting.
Abhishek Banerjee /
Casting
Realised
Extra
Me Always Acting
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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.
Anthony Doerr / Author Of Novels
Gone
Instantaneous
Lucky
Rejection
Quickly
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Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.
Ben Gazzara / Film Actor
Audrey
Coffee
Princess
Camera
Cup
James
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If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
Anthony Horowitz / Novelist
Succeed
Successful
Unsuccessful
Keep Going Keep Will
Writer
Difference
Gives
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They Say
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Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.
Reshma Saujani / Lawyer
Accepted
Brave
New York City
Public Office
Advocate
Bid
Failed
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For my first role, I had to audition five times. I've gotten a lot of no's and rejections. But I just had to keep working hard. I took classes; I worked on my craft and continued to work with an acting coach and just didn't give up on myself.
Naturi Naughton / Singer-Songwriter
Acting
Five
Work Myself Keep
Audition
Classes
Coach
Craft
Gotten
Rejections
Role
Took
Worked
Working Hard
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Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
Chris Pine / Actor
Common Language
Growing Up
Lows
Rejection
Shorthand
Speech
Supportive
Highs
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I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Stephenie Meyer / Writer
Book
Fifteen
Letters
Nine
Publishing
Rejection
Three
Agent
Month
Easiest
Entire World
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Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Writer
Amount
Effort
Needed
Persistent
Prozac
Good Great Everything
Exist
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Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow / Actor
Maintaining
Overcoming
Solve
Mistakes
Appalling
Capabilities
Churchill
Diminishing
Disasters
Faced
Increasing
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I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between the artist and the person passing by. And it's important to include some vulnerability and use fears and rejections and various aspects from my own life so people look at my work as more than greeting card fodder.
Morley /
Relationship
Artist
Fodder
Intimate
My Own
Passing
Posters
Vulnerability
Life Work Relationship
Life Work Myself
Aspects
Between
Forms
Card
Fears
Greeting
Include
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I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.
Lily Collins / Film Actress
Auditions
Choices
Passion
Rejection
Supportive
Love Always Me
Love Me Parents
Love Always Passion
Both My Parents
Choice
Love Passion Me
Cons
Finally
Grown
Pros
Rejections
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In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
Samantha Shannon / Writer
Junction
Multiple
Publishing
Setting
Pen
Picking
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Roads
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