Robert Herjavec Quotes

Everyone fears rejection.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I hate being rejected.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I'm very insecure.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.