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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.

    Dream   Pain   Heart  
  • A thick skin is a gift from God.

    God   Criticism   Skins  
    In New York Times 30 Dec. 1959, p. 5
  • 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!

    Source: www.sheknows.com
  • I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

    Baby   Thinking   Skins  
    Source: smashinginterviews.com
  • [Donald Trump] does have a thick skin, frankly, as someone who works very closely within, that was in that room today, directly beside him. I will say this though. That's not what the meeting was about.

    Skins   Doe   Today  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

    Speech at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, on November 02, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.
  • You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

  • Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

    Skins   Foxes   Notorious  
  • 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.

    Years   People   Skins  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Dark   Skins   Resistance  
    "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.
  • I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

    Mean   Long   Skins  
    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

    Years   Skins   Nine  
    "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
  • I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

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

  • The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.

    Dancer   Skins   Fields  
  • 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.

    Father   Moving   Son  
    Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.
  • 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.

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

  • If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

    "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.
  • People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.

  • The best thing wrestling ever taught me was how to network with people, how to talk to people, how to deal with a lot of different kinds of people in different situations and being a good guy and a bad guy teaches you how to be able to have a thick skin.

    Wrestling   People   Guy  
  • 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.

    Girl   Song   Advice  
    Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.
  • 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.

    Art   Creativity   Order  
    Source: www.achievement.org
  • A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

  • Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

    Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.281, e-artnow
  • As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

  • 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.

    Strong   Kids   School  
  • Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

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