Quotes About Validation

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of having his work bought and appreciated during his lifetime; no wonder the pain was more than he could bear); the composer needs his music to be heard. Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn.

If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you're animal and must die, and no one will know you were ever here. It's an intimation of the whole absurdity of what you are and do. It's the worst kind of despair.

Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener's eye that tells you you're on to something.

The officers weren't parked on a street corner, eating doughnuts. They were in constant motion. Police officers are no different from the rest of us. They want to feel that their efforts are important, that what they do matters, that their hard work will be rewarded. What happened in District 144 provided exactly what the profession of law enforcement had been searching for: validation.

The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Other people's criticisms about what you are capable of, have nothing to do with you.

Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

When you are truly happy you will realise that there is nothing to prove to people.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful every time other people talk about their success.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What really matters is what you think of yourself.

Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame.

For everyone, success matters more than anything else. Whether you are a good guy or not, no one really cares. All they really care about is how successful you are.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.