Quotes About Validation

I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.

Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

All young men want to prove themselves.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

People YouTube me and crap and then, they probably don't want to see me after seeing a friendly posted YouTube video, so I'm constantly having to take those down.

I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.