Paul Lambert Quotes

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.

I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

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.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

At first, being on the 'Bachelor' and seeing critical comments of myself, it would crush me, but now it's like a daily thing.

I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

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.

I have people criticizing me every day - even on my own website - so when you have people that are constantly bringing you down, it's not that hard to stay grounded.

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.