Thicker Skin Quotes

#1. I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

Fergie

#2. [2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

Christina Aguilera

#3. Now I'm a warrior
Now i've got thicker skin
I'm a warrior
I'm stronger than i've ever been
And my amor
Is made of steel you can't get in
i'm a warrior
And you can never hurt me again

Demi Lovato

#4. I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

Don Watson

#5. The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

Idina Menzel

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

Joel Stein

#7. I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what's best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I've definitely developed a thicker skin!

Rebecca Ferguson

#8. Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation

Michael Jordan

#9. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. I am pleased the Lord made my skin Black. I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#12. I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#13. The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

Joey Skaggs

#14. The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Oscar Wilde

#15. If I really had powers, I could turn off pain the way I can shut my eyes. But I can't. I feel it. Skin doesn't get thicker. Instead, it remembers.

Robin Roe

#16. Bono? Who the hell is that?

Redman

#17. It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

#18. All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Chevy Chase

#19. I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#20. Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Started as a flicker, meant to be a flame. Skin has gotten thicker, but it burns the same. Still a baby in a cradle, got to take my first fall ... baby's getting next to nowhere with her back against the wall.

Sara Bareilles

#22. I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

Carl Sandburg

#23. Let's downplay religion and lets begin to work hard on who God wants us to become.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#25. Trickle of superstitious dread

James Rollins

#26. He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

Sherman Alexie

#27. I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

Steve Irwin

#28. There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

Jamie Lidell