By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon... I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.

I love Jailynn so much. She's the best daughter. I bet every dad says that.

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.

I don't hear a lot about elected officials that are men talking about whether they smile a lot. My dad was in elected office my entire life. I don't remember many smiles, and nobody commented about it. He was serious about his job, and so am I.

If you would keep young: be cheerful, keep working, and love one another.

I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking inefficiency in political cartoons they are know nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I can live without Monday, but Friday is priceless and impossible to let go.

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be "more" successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick's day every single year, but there's very few practising Catholics or practising Christians.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.