Ian MacKaye Quotes

I absolutely do care 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.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"

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

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

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

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.

It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

I think when I started modeling three years ago, it was just a job, and I was so excited - everything was so new, so crazy. I didn't overthink anything; I just did it and enjoyed myself along the way. But after a few seasons, you get used to it, and there's a lot you actually have to think about, and, I don't know, it just makes you much more aware of what you look like and what other people think. It's a bit of a nightmare.