Quotes About Fearing Rejection

#1. And astronomy stagnated for decades because Nicolaus Copernicus refused to publish his original discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. Fearing rejection and ridicule, he stayed silent for twenty-two years, circulating his findings only to his friends. Eventually,

Adam M. Grant

#2. After you've found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend so much time fearing rejection, when what we really should fear is not trying at all.

Mitch Rowland

#3. the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard.

Junot Diaz

#4. I could be a housewife ... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

Debbie Harry

#5. I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

#6. Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.

Jenny Han

#7. We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from ... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

William Shakespeare

#8. There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

Karl Urban

#9. There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

George Burns

#10. My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!

David Berg

#11. It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

Donald Trump Jr.

#12. My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge

#13. The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Robin Sharma

#14. The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

Dorothy Rowe

#15. The best ideas are always the simplest.

Jesse Andrews