Quotes About Validation

A value is true because it's true because it's true.

And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when you do something badly and nobody bothers to tell you.

I've found that a substantial fraction of many people's days is spent worrying about what others think of them. If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and on our jobs.

Don't Obsess Over What People Think

Zašto mi je taj govor bio toliko važan? Jesam li time želio pokazati sebi i drugima da sam još i te kako živ? Da još uvijek imam snagu za nastup? Je li to možda želja nekoga tko voli javnu pozornost da odigra posljednju predstavu? Odgovori su bili potvrdni. — Ranjeni lav želi doznati može li još uvijek rikati - rekao sam Ja. - Radi se o dostojanstvu i samopoštovanju, a to nije isto što i taština.

U redu, možda ovo zvu?i malo uvrnuto. Ali ako vaša kanta za sme?e ili ta?ke imaju kakvu ulupinu, ne?ete kupovati nove. Možda je to zato jer vam kante za sme?e i ta?ke ne služe kao simboli socijalnog statusa i identiteta. Za Jai i mene naši su ošte?eni automobili postali potvrda našeg braka. Ne treba se baš sve popraviti.

A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

Underestimesia: the condition of being chronically underestimated.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

I think as a kid, you just want to be accepted by the people around you and largely I was.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Coming from Canada, I've always had people doubt me or doubt my ability. We're just going to keep letting our game talk.

When I was growing up, I felt like no one gave Canadians a chance. And now that they see we have quality in Canada and it's amazing to see.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that.

My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they saw something was 'Captain America,' and he called me, and he was so elated.

I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.

All the little things you nitpick in your head, nobody really cares that much outside your head.