Quotes About Validation

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we're not real people that feel real things.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

You get terribly depressed if they're bad for you and if they're good then you start playing your reviews, emphasizing those things that the reviewer likes.

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

When you play good and people say that you have been terrific and you have been playing good football, that's something that stays and builds you and your confidence.

It's really great to have Harry Reid or whomever come say, 'Oh you're terrific.'

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

The very fact that people make an effort to search and know more about me is a testament that I am doing my job well.

If you don't get tested throughout your career, people can forget about you.

Testimonials are enough to convince people for now.