Quotes About Validation

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

If youve bought a ticket to see me perform, youre heroes in my book. Youre better than the people who didnt buy tickets.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.

When we're on the "me" plan, what others say about us has great power. A friend tells us we look good—our mind soars. A colleague tells us we're not pulling our weight at work—our mind sinks.

They are afraid to read out loud, fearful of being thought stupid or foolish or — what? I ask them. Girlish? Boring, says one Megan. (Which Megan? I can't remember.) This is a terrible fear, I know — this fear of not being interesting — of being trivial, not special. It is almost as great, I think, as their fear of standing out and being special.

Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

I know how it feels to be told that it's all in your mind. It drives you mad.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

quickly saw Nancy's problem: a need to be liked and viewed as caring and giving by virtually everyone she met.

Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien

The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right?

For people my age, including me, if we don't post it, it never happened. People's

that I could show Danielle's face and share her story with every young lady out there making bad decisions about sex, often in an empty quest for love and validation—especially African Americans.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

I am only as good as my last publication. Guess I am doing ok in that area.

I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.