Quotes About Validation

She's truly a woman?" said Aunt Gabbana, eyeing me shrewdly. "Of course," said Paula. "None of that's padding?" said Aunt Gabbana, nodding towards my chest. "Certainly not!" said Paula. "You'd be amazed at what some families try. She has nice wide hips, none of these narrow pelvises. Let me see your teeth, Agnes.

Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

She said that wanting to be liked was a weakness of character.

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.