Motsi Mabuse Quotes

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

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

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

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

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

I don't take anything personally.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

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

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I don't let people affect me.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.