Quotes About Validation

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.

As long as I'm respected by my peers and coaches, I'm cool.

I've never made an All-Star Game, but I've always had my peers' and coaches' respect around the league.

The respect from your peers - I don't know if it's because I grew up in the business, I don't know if that's why - but to me, that became the biggest thing.

We as athletes want to be validated by your peers.

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested in me reading 30-40 pages to them.

When you're respected by your peers, that's amazing.

To have the appreciation from your peers, the fans and the company you work for is the ultimate reward. For me, that has always been ultimate because respect has always been the most important thing to me in this business.

It means a lot when your peers see your improvement.

I've searched all of my life for approval from my dad who is not around. So if I can get approval by his fans or from peers and critics, it helps me.

Obviously, having your peers' respect is everything. I learned that a long time ago: that some people see you one way, some people see you another way, but having your peers' respect is what's really important.

I wanted to build respect with my peers... I felt like I had done that throughout my WWE career. I really felt it and knew it was there when I got injured.

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

If people say my numbers aren't enough for the Hall of Fame, I'm fine with that.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.