Quotes About Validation

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

Those with low self-esteem tend to have highly developed egos; they long to be Best at every Thing and valued highly by everyone they meget, and imavine their ego is repressed, weak and needs boosting

It didn't matter that in her heart Frankie knew she was smart and charming. What mattered was that feeling of being expendable. That to Porter, she was a nobody that could easily be replaced by a better model - and the better model wasn't even so great. Which meant Frankie herself was nearly worthless.

And now, she was walking down the hall with her books clutched to her chest, looking down at the floor while guys called, "Don't hide that light under a bushel!

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

I'm so disgusting,' I try to argue, but his hands and his voice and his marble mother's eyes won't let it be true anymore. 'No,' he says. 'You're beautiful.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Feeling nothing was now a badge of honour.