Quotes About Thick Skinned

#1. When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Neil Gaiman

#2. The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

James Hillman

#3. I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

Diane Abbott

#4. like slicing bread, thick-skinned tomatoes and so on - but on your full line of vegetables, spuds, meat and even fish. My sous-chef uses his for just about everything. F. Dick makes a good one for about twenty-five bucks.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?

Nizar Qabbani

#6. She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing.

Kavita Kane

#7. They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Neil Kinnock

#8. And there's another thing, too - it don't hurt when you chip me about it. Thick-skinned and tenderhearted, that's my mixture.

James Hilton

#9. The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us.

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#10. Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

George Eads

#11. Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

#12. I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

J.K. Rowling

#13. There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

Tamara Ecclestone

#14. Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

Evelyn Waugh

#15. I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.

Emma Stone

#16. Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

Marge Piercy

#17. Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

#18. In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

#19. If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

Gracia Martore

#20. A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Romany Malco

#22. Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.

Paul Runyan

#23. A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable.

Rhea Seehorn

#25. My workout philosophy is; no pain, no pain

Woody Paige

#26. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

#27. I can't let her go. Not when I've finally found her.

Maya Banks

#28. Atlantis?" Jason asked. "That's a myth," Percy said. "Uh ... don't we deal in myths?" "No, I mean it's a made-up myth. Not, like, an actual true myth." "So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, then?" "Shut up, Grace.

Rick Riordan

#29. Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

Nancy Meyers

#30. Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#31. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.

Suzanne Collins

#32. I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

Mindy Kaling

#33. It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

Mitch Albom