Quotes About Thick-skinned

I'm not sensitive.

I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.

I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.

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.

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.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

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.

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

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

I've been in politics a long time and the only way you survive is by getting the hide of a rhino.

I like to think my upbringing has made me pragmatic and thick-skinned, a coper and a realist

I have a very resilient Brooklyn personality that allows me to stay thick-skinned and focused on my mission and goals.

a hybrid who combines the delicate frailness of the Mimosa, crumbling at a touch when his own feelings are hurt, with the thick-skinned robustness of the elephant trampling over the feelings of others.

Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

Personnel in the tactical arena should be thick skinned and ready for direct and frank feedback.