Quotes About Validation

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

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

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.

The proof was all in the hands.

In general, writers never find out how strong their talent is: that investigation begins with their obituaries. In the USSR, writers found out how good they were when they were still alive. If the talent was strong, only luck or silence could save them.

How do I look, Marty?' he would say

Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter

That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

Te veel kennis over onszelf doen we op uit de blikken van anderen. Wij vertrouwen eerder op hoe wij gezien worden dan op hoe wij onszelf zien.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Whoever attaches great importance to the opinions of people pays them too much honour.

what every one most aims at in ordinary contact with his fellows is to prove them inferior to himself ...

For as a rule a man must have worth in himself in order to recognise it and believe in it willingly and freely in others.

human nature is so constituted that we pay an attention to the opinion of other people which is out of all proportion to its value

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence, he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself — so long as other people leave him alone.

To bowiem, co jest prawdziwem w teoryi, musi siÄ™ w praktyce sprawdza?; w przeciwnym razie jest jakiÅ› bÅ'Ä…d w samej teoryi, którego nie dopatrzono na razie

The anxieties of all of us, our worries, vexations, bothers, troubles, uneasy apprehensions and strenuous efforts are due, in perhaps the large majority of instances, to what other people will say;

You would need to see consistently bad results across a number of studies to be convinced. And that has yet to be shown.

It did not take long here to realize that some had come just to be seen

How can this be justified?

The language by which we have been taught to dismiss ourselves and our feelings as suspect is the same language we use to dismiss and suspect each other.