Quotes About Adversity

As players you need to have thick skin and we need to have belief that you will have bad days but it's about making sure you have more good days than bad.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.

My experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that I needed.

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

Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I've had to develop a thick skin, though some days it's easier than others.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.

I don't think I've got a thick skin, but I've not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved.

You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

I've grown a thick skin.

I've developed a thicker skin than I've had.

Holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker.

Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what's next. It's made me grow a much thicker skin.

It is hard when fans say nasty things on Twitter but we are starting to build a thicker skin and are getting used to it.

Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.

I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Unfortunately, we're in a profession, and if you've got thin skin, you're not going to last very long. So you take the good with the bad.

I started in an asbestos filled room on some thin judo mats and the first time I was in a ring was my first match. We did shows for 50 people and were pleased with that.