Thick Skin Quotes

• A thick skin is a gift from God.

  Konrad Adenauer

  God, Criticism, Skins

  In New York Times 30 Dec. 1959, p. 5

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• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  Karlie Kloss

  Skins, Grows, Thick

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• 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

  Dark, Skins, Resistance

  "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Skins, Actors

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• Focus on your work. Be the best you that you can be. Develop a thick skin and let things roll off your back. And keep a sense of humor!

  Megan Alexander

  Focus, Skins, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

  Sia Furler

  Heart, Skins, Thick

  "Song: 'Elastic Heart'". 2013.

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• You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

  Cindy Margolis

  People, Skins, Surround Yourself

  "13 Questions With Cindy Margolis". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2006.

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• Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Kids, Thinking, Hair

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• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Jobs, People, Skins

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• I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

  Dan Savage

  Heart, Skins, Thick

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• Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Disappointment, Stress, Long

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• I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Memories, Thinking, Keys

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• In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

  Taylor Swift

  Skins, Feels, Thick

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• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Father, Moving, Son

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Important, Skins

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• My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  Kate Voegele

  Girl, Song, Advice

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

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• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, People, Skins

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• You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

  Alexander Wang

  Strong, Kids, School

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Pain, Heart

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• Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.

  Stephen Boss

  Mind, Vision, Skins

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• I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

  Daniel Pearce

  Skins, Jerk, Grows

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• God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

  Darrin Patrick

  Heart, Men, People

  Darrin Patrick (2010). “Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission”, p.12, Crossway

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• In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Creativity, Order

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• 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.

  Prince

  Skins, Able, Speak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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