Thick Skin Quotes

I think that it is important that one grows a thick skin fast in this business, and I think we have done that.

I'm not easily offended so whether it be a compliment or a derogatory comment, it really doesn't bother me.

Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

I welcome criticism. I come from a - I wouldn't say mean, but you've got to have tough skin to be in my family.

I am pleased that God made my skin black, but I only wish he had made it thicker.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

You develop a thick skin. And once all the chips have been played, you make sure you're working on behalf of Arizona.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

I have a thick skin.

Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.