James Lee Burke
Author
"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."
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Rejects You
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart"
James Lee Burke
Author
"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."
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"... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system."
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