Jayson Blair Quotes

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

No matter how many people want me to crawl in a hole and die forever, I'm not going to do that.

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me?

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.