Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 408)
“The rejection is often not because of the reasons you think they are rejecting you.”
Source: https://twitter.com/arjunmahadevan/status/1677775875369058304
Quoted in "Feeling Rejected? Join Updike, Mailer, Oates..." by Barbara Bauer and Robert F. Moss, New York Times (21 July 1985), section 7, page 1, column 1
General sources
“Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.”
The Clash of Fundamentalism
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
This is part of Lang's campaign in his attempt to discredit the results of The 1977 survey of the American professoriate published in 1979 by Everett C Ladd and Seymour M Lipsett. In 1981 Lang published The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) which consists of copies of correspondence concerning the survey. In this quote from The File Lang sets out why he fought that campaign.
