Quotes About Validation

Fans outside were screaming. Through the white noise of hollers and hoots emerged a rhythmic shout. Becky strained to understand. "Felix, they are chanting your name." Felix nodded. "You see, this is exactly why I need you here." "To tell you what they're chanting?" "To laugh at it, darling. Or I might take it seriously.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Inside each of us is a desire to be loved, a desire to be chosen, called out of the crowd, and loved for who we are. Seeking these desires, we all become performers, morphing ourselves into whatever role may earn us a place in the hearts of those around us.

Thank you that I'm not worthless in your eyes nor in my own.

When we measure our worth by the approval of others, we are only as valuable as our last compliment or accomplishment.

I figured the teacher offered me the candy to shut up Claire and Molly and to make me feel good that I accidentally got all the questions right. But it was no accident. I knew them all. Every single one.

Now I see I've been hoping, each time we meet, that he would praise me for how well I took it, but it's not to be.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

Even if a woman knows in her head that her husband finds her beautiful, she still needs to hear it.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, 'Why are we having these parties?' What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, 'That could only have been built by slaves

Do I want children because I want to be admired as the admirable sort of woman who has children? Because I want to be seen as a normal sort of woman, or because I want to be the best kind of woman, a woman with not only work, but the desire and ability to nurture, a body that can make babies, and someone who another person wants to make babies with? Do I want a child to show myself to be the (normal) sort of woman who wants and ultimately has a child?

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"

There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.