Theo Epstein Quotes

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

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

You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

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

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

I guess I don't really measure myself by what others think. So even though I have gotten to work with some amazing directors, and you might perceive me to be that girl, that isn't how I see myself. So if one day nobody wants to work with me, it won't be this massive surprise.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

It's just being me, man... If you get caught up in people saying you're good and people saying this or that, good or bad, it can kind of wear on you. Or it'll make you feel like you're better than what you are.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.