Quotes About Validation

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Some people just want to be accepted.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

Regardless of anything I say, some people try to take the fact that I'm an artist away from me.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

It's nice when somebody says that you're their 'favorite' drummer.

Every performer has a little gem, a little pearl they have done that nobody pays much attention to. And then one day, somebody does recognize it, which is so gratifying.

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

When I started my recording career, I hoped that someday the Grammy committee would notice something.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something.

The whole world may tell you how beautiful you are but there is that one person whose compliment will make you feel like a million bucks!

LOGAN: I think you spend too much time believing what other people see, rather than what you think.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.

Why so many eager to hear the word of "I love you" and so few care to see?

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.