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Rejection

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Rejection

"The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!"

Ego Identity Rejection
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Olivia Newton-John Singer, Actress
Rejection

"Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection."

People Song Rejection
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
Rejection

"Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated."

Character Numbers Rejection
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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist
Rejection

"So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind."

Mind Baby Rejection
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Joseph Murray Surgeon
Rejection

"The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?"

Skins Rejection Host
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Edward de Bono Psychologist
Rejection

"The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking."

Thinking Acceptance Rejection
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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
Rejection

"Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love."

Self Hate Rejection
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Rejection

"I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity."

Sky Rejection Tiny
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