Quotes About Validation

Thus, it is not the customer, but rather our hypothesis about the customer, that pulls work from product development and other functions. Any other work is waste.

In other words, the startup has to find ways to achieve the same amount of validated learning at lower cost or in a shorter time.

In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to achieve validated learning.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Good idea." The grunted response came from Breezepelt. Crowfeather could barely prevent his tail from sticking straight up in astonishment. Finally, I've done something right!

You're twice the cat Tigerpaw will ever be. I could never be disappointed in you.

I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

I want so much to be someone important, or even just asked out by a boy every once in a while. Maybe the new me will be different.

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

I am tired of these affairs, where no one asks what books I've read, only a handful of relatives are interested in how I'm advancing at my job, and everyone quizzes me about my dating life.

I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because ... well, it interferes with the business of writing.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

Sometimes I punch myself hard as I can Yelling "Nobody cares," hoping someone will tell me how wrong I am

I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.

All spies need to feel they are loved.

You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

He saw the firm's success as a personal validation.