Quotes About Validation

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life, I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation.

What I found fascinating for me was, I've never gotten so much approval and accolades and warmth and congratulations as when I had a guy on my arm that people thought I was going to marry. It was amazing. I mean, nobody congratulated me that hard when I had my three children.

Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.'

When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.

You look at keyboard warriors who just want to get on and talk bad about the people in the sport, and the problem is that everyone who's talking bad, they wouldn't even be able to fill a stadium with three thousand people.

People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'

And thank you for not laughing at me. People tend to disregard us old ladies—they think we're only good for sewing robes and making hot chocolate, that we're crazy since we can no longer bear children. But we're smarter than everyone because we don't have distractions anymore. No kids. No husbands for many of us. We always knew the evil that men did, and we still do. Just now, no one believes us.

The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.

Girls like Caroline and Lily are constantly performing, as much for the Good Girl they think they should be as for the adults and peers who look on. They have spent their lives growing internally dependent on external rewards: pats on the back A's, club presidencies, Most Valuable Player trophies. They become more concerned with how they appear and should be than who they are What other think and feel replaces what is true for them.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about what other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

that whole oh I care so much bull. Just to make everybody like her.

To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. This

You should never be worried about how many likes you're getting but on the life you're creating.

To 'die to prove that I alone was right' was meaningless, Gandhi said on 5 June

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

What's more worse: Not being Loved or not worthy to be Lusted?

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special? It doesn't.

It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their poems are bad.

you come with the imprimatur of power." "Imprimatur, huh?" "Seal of approval. In case you have to throw your weight around.

The kinds of attention we get on social media is really very much like crack cocaine. We have social obesity I call it—we can't stop our consumption of opportunities to display ourselves and get feedback from other people.