Quotes About Validation

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

By far the best proof is experience.

All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level.

the promotion of self-esteem enabled not human potential but a crippling narcissism, indeed, a narcissism that he felt had come to characterize American society as a whole.

It is not enough that I have a sense of my own worth if other people do not publicly acknowledge it or, worse yet, if they denigrate me or don't acknowledge my existence.

Please don't say . . . ; 'NO'! to Me, . . . I'm a person worth 'Knowing'!.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Trust, but verify.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

One day they'll wake up and realize that we were right about everything all along.

Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority list as finding a cockroach in their coffee. The typical scientist has made an interesting discovery early on in his or her career, followed by a lifetime of making sure that everyone else admires his or her contribution and that no one questions it. There is no poorer company than an aging scientist who has failed to achieve these objectives.

Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose himself on another man in order to be recognized by him. As long as he has not been effectively recognized by the other, it is this other who remains the focus of his actions. His human worth and reality depend on this other and on his recognition by the other. It is in this other that the meaning of his life is condensed.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.