Unaffected by Criticism Quotes

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

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.

Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know who I am, and I know that God looks down on me and smiles. I know that - without a shadow of a doubt.

There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

All of them fans in love with me 'cause I say what's real. So I could never give a f-ck how a hater feel.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.

The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.

I don't take anything personal.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I don't take anything personally.

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

I am at Chelsea and I still have aims here, what is said elsewhere is not important.