Quotes About Validation

It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

Don't do what I did and think you need to have these procedures to make you look more attractive. Don't look at the implant and think it will make you beautiful and everyone will really love you.

You can't make somebody love you, no matter what you do to yourself. You can get implants, you can get all these procedures, thinking you will be more of a woman for that person. But it does not make a difference. If they don't love you, they won't no matter what you do to your appearance.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.

When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.

I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work.

I'd had colleagues tell me, 'You should be calling games.' But to actually have a producer call me and say, 'We want you in the booth,' I was like, What?

I was always critiquing my work. I let everybody else around - producers, directors, other actors - they give the nod of approval or the praise. Because I tried to always bring the best, so even if they were happy with it, I was still scrutinizing it.

It's scary being in a room with producers and saying, 'Here's my idea,' when I'm scared to get shot down.

At the beginning of 'Friends,' Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director, the producers or the writers if they were around. There would be a look of: 'Am I doing this right?'

All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.

When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want your product or service?' As you can expect, the answer is often that they don't yet, but will know once they launch. And they're right. That's why it's critical to launch as quickly as possible so you can get that feedback.