John Lanchester Quotes

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

Interviews and public opinion about me never mattered. I know exactly who I am.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.