Quotes About Validation

I can't get no respect.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Existe una diferencia esencial entre «tener ideas» y «someter estas ideas a prueba». Lo característico de los filósofos es comprobar las ideas, averiguar si poseen alguna coherencia y solidez o si encierran algún tipo de vicio de forma, o algún error que las haga inviables.

All we know about ourselves comes from the way people loved us.

Every human being gets much of his sense of his own reality out of what others say to him and think about him.

Everybody needs a pat on the back occasionally, even if it is self-inflicted.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

For most teenage girls, guys are everything. Boys validate their existence; they define who they are and where they stand in the world. You can talk to boys differently than your girlfriends. Until they screw you over, they can be really fun and comforting.

People fight over technology in ways they never would face-to-face because they can say their version of events without getting immediate feedback that might challenge it. It allows people to throw more intense self-righteous temper tantrums.

Because although we have told girls that they're as smart and as competent as boys, they still get conscious and unconscious messages that they need a man to validate their self-worth and that, to get the man in the first place, they have to present themselves in a nonthreatening (read feminine) manner.

When you give an A, you find yourself speaking to people not from a place of measuring how they stack up against your standards, but from a place of respect that gives them room to realize themselves.

Why am I a loser? She sat very still. Because it pleases my father.

What people accept as justification shows how they think and live.

an inner process stands in need of outward criteria

Hak ettiÄŸi bir övgünün önce kendisinden esirgendiÄŸini, ard?ndan kendisine cömert bir armaÄŸan gibi sunulduÄŸunu görüp de sinirlenmeyecek biri var m?d?r, bilemiyorum.

Our new ways are disruptive. They will look weird. This is good. Let us not care, but enjoy that glimpse in another's eyes that we will find sometimes—the one that says, "You're not crazy. I feel it, too.

If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named