Quotes About Validation

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: 'Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.'" I have found this technique very useful, in my private life and in my practice. I routinely summarize what people have said to me, and ask them if I have understood properly.

And perhaps because, as unfamiliar and strange as it sounds, in the deepest part of our psyche, we all want to be judged.

On Facebook and other forms of social media, therefore, you signal your so-called virtue, telling everyone how tolerant, open and compassionate you are, and wait for likes to accumulate.

The person who is speaking in this manner believes that winning the argument makes him right, and that doing so necessarily validates the assumption-structure of the dominance hierarchy he most identifies with. This is often—and unsurprisingly—the hierarchy within which he has achieved the most success, or the one with which he is most temperamentally aligned. Almost all discussions involving politics or economics unfold in this manner,

We compete for attention, personally, socially, and economically. No currency has a value that exceeds it. Children, adults, and societies wither on the vine in its absence. To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world.

To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world.

I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me.

A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making? And are they justified?

If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you're making the same mistake the army made when they counted the bullet holes on the planes that came back from Germany.

Math is a science of not being wrong about things,

The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Drizzle pricked her ears. "Yesterday she said that I was as dumb as a water vole. But I'm not." "Of course you're not!" Pine Needle's whiskers twitched mischievously. "You're dumber.

affects you, and the way you're treated." Nightheart stared at her. It might mean something to other cats, but he wanted to be respected for being himself.

I fear this is the case because niceness is habit-forming. Once you've become nice there are no limits to what you will do to continue to evince positive feedback from the world around you. It's a self-reinforcing spiral that never needs to stop.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

Now I have a theory that if a woman wants to keep a man she only needs to say two things: She believes in him and he's got a big a cock. That's all it takes. It doesn't even have to be true.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.