Quotes About Validation

Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute.

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it

if nobody can contradict the story, then it's pseudoreal,

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

I hate myself for how much this grudging nod of respect means to me. But it does mean something . . . How do assholes make us care what they think?

It was pretty obvious to me that he had just begun working here and was desperately trying to make a good impression. He was the type who would be proving his maturity all his life. He wouldn't appreciate that until he was over sixty.

Your information sources should complement one another, and also be redundant because that gives you a way to verify what you've learned.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

if you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own. Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others.

It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?

Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

She was not aware of loneliness so much as of endeavour: her future career as a writer, of which there was as yet no sign, would, she thought, in time validate her entire existence. Until then she would adopt—had already adopted—a regime which would steel her against rejection and disappointment.

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.

have you ever noticed how the one who wants to please never does?