So I greatly appreciate what you've
said about rejections; I've been told that by other writers... some agents just are into rejections because they are inundated or whatever.
Not exact matches
Barbara Corcoran on the Secret to Handling
Rejection The Shark Tank star and angel investor says when faced with rejection, it's all about how you get
Rejection The Shark Tank star and angel investor
says when faced with
rejection, it's all about how you get
rejection, it's all
about how you get back up.
He goes on to
say that there «has to be a complete
rejection of the tools of harassment and fear — we can't even begin to talk
about the interesting stuff while people are literally scared for their lives.»
Mouw concludes that LDS leaders «are simply
saying nothing
about it in the hope of keeping it on the margins of their historic teachings without issuing a straightforward
rejection of something that loomed large in the LDS past.»
Yeah there are a few differences in other areas, but your view of the Jews, the God of the OT, and
rejection of what the prophets
said about God, and the presentation of God in the OT, you two are like peas in a pod.
Jesus also
says that anyone who speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but this view
about Israel's
rejection of Jesus seems to
say the opposite, that Jewish people who rejected Jesus by speaking against Him would not be forgiven.
For him to care
about the «general good,» she would
say, is tantamount to a
rejection of his own being.
JK: When I read what you
said about personal immortality, while I'm inclined to agree with a lot of it — for example, your
rejection of egoism — I still have some difficulties with it.
Say what you please
about this being a reversion to «primitive hylozoism,» or «primitive animism,» it remains true that it is one of the three options we confront (if we ignore mere subjectivism or positivism) and that the other two are also open to easy
rejection.
The best part for me is that nothing you can
say and nothing you put up in defense of your
rejection of Christ, limits or inhibits His glory and even though you deride and antagonize believers on this blog, the truth is WE ARE STILL TALKING
ABOUT JESUS.
A blanket
rejection of the past does not
say something
about Judaism so much as it does
about one's view of God.
Sarah reveals things turned sour soon after the
rejection,
saying: «People who look after Marcos claimed I had demanded # 100,000 to keep quiet
about our encounter.
In the most damning
rejection so far of the police - privatisation ideology, CC Creedon
said he cared «passionately»
about all his staff and wanted them to work for Derbyshire Constabulary — not private companies.
The mayor was unfazed when asked
about the
rejections Monday,
saying «there's often a divergence between the community boards and the council and the mayor» that is «healthy» and «part of democracy.»
The state would not release its list of recusals for the current round of funding,
saying in its
rejection of a Freedom of Information Law request that «all aspects of pending applications, including information
about recusals by members of the Regional Economic Development Council, is exempt from disclosure as it contains information that «if disclosed would impair present or imminent contract awards.»»
But
about 5 months later, the decision was reversed on the grounds that, in the eyes of the Spanish system, McBride did not hold a master's degree or a Ph.D. «The forwarded documentation,»
said the official
rejection letter, «has not gone through any of the two legal processes, neither of homologation nor of recognition, for the mentioned title to be valid in Spain, neither for academic nor for professional purposes.»
Reassuring the other person
about the opportunity you're turning down is one way to soften a
rejection, Rego
says.
In an article for CNN, authors Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz had this to
say about online dating
rejection: «Toughen up.
In the five minute set — which includes some witty, and rather scathing, criticism of Zoosk — he
says the worst thing
about online dating is the constant
rejection, which is made worse by the fact that people are actually rejecting the best possible version of you.
«The fear of initial
rejection isn't as great when you don't have to see someone face to face,» Rebecca Liu
said about her experience with Match.com.
«You hear
about the entertainment industry beating you down, but you don't realize what that kind of
rejection can do to you until you go through it,»
said Borten, an imposing man who counts among his unexpected life experiences a past romantic relationship with the actress Julie Delpy.
«I was touched by this experience and inspired by these students, who turned their lives around and [had become] excited
about learning, only to experience that deep sense of
rejection, especially after they had worked so hard,» Trueheart
says.
Which isn't to
say that the millions of teachers and parents who flooded social media and the Congressional switchboard to urge her
rejection had nothing to worry
about.
But teachers unions
say that those who are calling for a full
rejection of the Common Core are exploiting the broader discontent
about the rollout of the standards and new tests.
It doesn't matter if you're
about to write your first query letter, or you've already gotten hundreds of
rejections... this presentation will explain the four critical parts of an irresistible query letter, the best opening and closing lines, 10 things that you should never
say, and insider secrets to help you make simultaneous submissions.
But if you recognize that even the most successful authors have been,
say, rejected by 56 agents, like Kathryn Stocket was with The Help, or faced six years of
rejection, like Julia Glass did before publishing Three Junes, which went on to win the National Book Award, it becomes just part of the process, a story you can someday tell
about how hard - fought your success was.
My biggest fears
about writing weren't
about writer's block and
rejection letters, but
about losing time with my daughter,» DeLuca
says.
All of this is to
say that in following this new path, I submitted to one agent, smiled when I received the
rejection email which is now on the wall in my office, and opened my own small imprint, http://www.usindiebooks.com/ I've just signed one author, Patrick H Moore who runs the very popular, http://www.allthingscrimeblog.com/ am
about to sign another, and am accepting new submissions.
College admissions are more competitive now than ever, and the difference between receiving a big, fat acceptance package and a slim
rejection letter in the mail comes down to a personal essay, what it
says about your personal character in relation to the college's zeitgeist and brand.
Phil Bradley blogged
about the New York Times article on the
rejection of the Sony eReader app by Apple,
saying:
While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
says the
rejection rate for co-signer release applications is
about 90 %, some lenders
say that rate is much lower.
The Video Appeals Committee has now allowed the appeal against the BBFC's
rejection of the game by a majority of four to three and here's what David Cooke, Director of the BBFC has to
say about the matter:
«On the cultural hand,» she
said, «there is a desire to not care
about what the outside world thinks, not an outright
rejection, it's just like nothing else is there, only «us.»
Wally
says: «We were talking
about your ignorance of the scientific process illustrated by not being able to tell the difference between something we might call «scientific skepticism» and «religious
rejection of science.»
I can't exactly
say how, because I don't really know how refrigerators work, especially refrigerators that rely on pure radiation for
rejection of heat during their cyclic operation and it all makes my head hurt to try to figure it out and explain it in a way that would actually convince somebody (you know, with algebra and Navier - Stokes and everything) but it really is fun to talk
about it as if I did know.»
As European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard
said,
rejection of Keystone XL would send a strong message internationally that the US is serious
about fighting climate change.
Grimes is wrong to
say that conspiracy theories
about vaccines lead to either «opposition to» or «
rejection of» the scientific method.
We're talking
about the mass consumer
rejection of crackers, ice cream, dog food / biscuits, cookies, nutrition, diet, and candy bars, cookie dough, and yes, although I hate to
say this with February 14th just right around the corner, boxes of Valentine candy.
In a recent article here Michael Mann wrote
about his NYT oped piece, where he
said: «Yet a fringe minority of our populace clings to an irrational
rejection of well - established science.
Opponents
say a presidential
rejection of the project would send a powerful message to the world
about the importance of moving away from fossil fuels and make it more difficult for Canada to export its energy - intensive oil.
Maybe some direct comparison here could help — something along the lines of noting the history of their
rejections of AGW, eg how they've back - pedalled on the «since 1998 it's been cooling», to (Bob Carter's) «since 2002 it has been cooling», then the way in which they counter 2005 being the hottest year by
saying 1934 was (but conveniently forgetting the bit
about that being only the USA, all of 2 % of the global surface area), and then finally (Bob Carter again) «recently it has been cooling».
David Hogg, a student who survived the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday called for a boycott of companies that advertise on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show in response to a tweet that mocked Hogg by
saying he «whines»
about college
rejections.
The pen needs to be very close to the screen — I'd
say about a quarter of an inch — before the pointer registers and palm
rejection kicks in.
MacDonald
says it's important to realize that your own fears
about rejection are just that: fears.