Quotes About Validation

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person.

I've lived my whole life trying to prove that I'm worthy of being a part of something because I never really felt that.

It's obviously flattering when somebody likes something one is doing. But at the same time, I get embarrassed about it. It's the 'I'm not worthy syndrome.'

In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.

When I first got two stars, I didn't think I deserved it. Now I have three I think I am worthy.

But it's hard for people to give you a chance until you prove to them that you're worthy.

Game of Thrones' really opened the door. It let people see that genre shows are worthy.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.

I always felt I was wounded. That I was no good, a piece of crap, and that I wouldn't amount to anything, because that's what my father always told me. I just felt like I didn't belong anywhere.

I don't want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, 'Wow, you've done a great job.'

I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

I was quite shy. I found my way, I suppose, with food. It's a confidence builder. How else in life do you get that opportunity for someone to say to you, 'Wow, that's really great'? You put food in front of someone and, 'Ahhh, I really enjoyed that!' It's a lift.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.