Quotes About Validation

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

I just wanted to prove that I can play wide receiver at a high level.

Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

And if I have kids one day, I can tell them that I was famous on Instagram, which is really funny, and they will think that I'm really lame. Everything is temporary.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.