Quotes About Validation

If your catchphrase has appeared in men's toilets, then you know you've made it!

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

The whole thing was a lavishly funded laboratory experiment in the Reagan-era unfettered pro-business principles that the Clinton administration was validating. Harvard, with its liberal reputation, added to the validation. Simultaneously across Asia and Latin America, similar experiments were being launched. Unfortunately, the grotesque virus that resulted did not stay sealed inside the post-Soviet laboratory.

She says she's proud of me. I think she might say it only to reassure herself that she's a good mother.

Some people care most about exhibiting how much they care.

Those whose every act is praised are handicapped by adoration. They grow stunted, shrivel up, lose the impulse to continue. Praise can kill.

If you insist that people witness your beauty, they'll watch it closely until it's gone.

Is it so wrong to be needed?

The purpose of social media is to show everyone the life you wish you were living, not the one you're actually living. Most people are living two lives. The one they let people see, and the real one.

How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.

The irony is that the more they achieve and the better they do, the less people are inclined to believe them, and the more they feel forced to then stay in the closet.

Many women feel that no matter how competent others think they are, or no matter how much they achieve, they are really just fooling everyone.

Permission to Proceed:

She empowers ADD women by validating their experience as worthwhile human beings who struggle with serious organizational problems in many areas of their lives.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

being published' is not the same as being a real writer.

I get mail; therefore I am.

Because religious beliefs and experiences cannot be reliably validated through logical deduction or observational induction, validation occurs only by satisfying the emotions that motivate religion in the first place. Religious

The love of new ideas is a myth: we prefer ideas only after others have tested them.

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

Success isn't found in the eyes of others: buying things you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people you won't know in 20 years' time.

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.