I think all great innovations
are built on rejections.
?Louise Nevelson
To be no part of any body,
is to be nothing.
?John Donne
I wrote for twelve years and
collected 250 rejection slips
before getting any fiction published,
so I guess outside reinforcement
isn't all that important to me.
?Lisa Alther
We keep going back,
stronger, not weaker,
because we will not allow
rejection to beat us down.
It will only strengthen our
resolve. To be successful
there is no other way.
?Earl G. Graves
Dear to us are those who love us. . .
but dearer are those who reject us
as unworthy, for they add another life;
they build a heaven before us whereof we
had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new
powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
