Sean Lock Quotes

What I've learned, being in this league, is you can't take things personally.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you, and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.

I don't take anything personally.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

A public man should have no resentments.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.

If I took everything as personally as I possibly could, I wouldn't survive.

You can't get emotional about your work.

I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.

You learn not to take things personally, but it can be hard.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.