Quotes About Validation

My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.

It's just extra motivation when people appreciate what you do.

The promotion of self-esteem in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things — and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

Testing a hypothesis using the numbers that helped form the hypothesis in the first place is not OK.15

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

The only people Ryan needed to impress were those who knew him; he cared little for the rest.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

For the Marines, it validated their claim of "first to fight." They were the first Allied ground force to take the offensive against Axis forces in World War II, a point they still take pride in today.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.

people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

when people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.

Claude believed that only smart, attractive people had the right to fuck, and it sincerely hurt him when he discovered evidence to the contrary.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

But suppose my eyes aren't blue enough? Blue enough for what? Blue enough for…I don't know. Blue enough for something. Blue enough…for you!

The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way.

He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.