Aubrey McClendon Quotes

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

With a lot of attention comes criticism, but I'll take that. I'm reaching all the goals I've set for myself, so you can't say anything bad about that.

Be bold, brave and not afraid to fall on your face and ultimately you will succeed

Every time you get rejected, say: 'Next!'

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.