Quotes About Validation

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty. That is the worst thing about being a little kid; nobody is shy about letting you know these things.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I go online and read the comments about me. I'm always nervous that they're going to say something mean. But a lot of people say nice things, too. It's important to keep yourself in balance. When someone writes something about me that's not true, I just try to look at it like it's funny.

Anthropologists will tell you that oral cultures understand the past differently; for them, their histories don't need to be accurate so much as they need to validate the community's understanding of itself. So it wouldn't be correct to say that their histories are unreliable; their histories do what they need to do.

The idea that accounts of the past shouldn't change is a product of literate cultures' reverence for the written word. Anthropologists will tell you that oral cultures understand the past differently; for them, their histories don't need to be accurate so much as they need to validate the community's understanding of itself. So it wouldn't be correct to say that their histories are unreliable; their histories do what they need to do.

Of those who'd been devout before their loss, some struggled with the task of remaining so, while others gave up their devotion without a second glance. Of those who'd never been devout, some felt their position had been validated, while others were faced with the near impossible task of becoming devout now.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

People are going to doubt Aaron Donald and they're going to like Aaron Donald. But at the end of the day, my job is to make plays and let them speak for me.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

My body of work speaks for itself. I don't need anybody in the media to tell me I'm a good defensive player.

I feel I have nothing to prove at all, my scoring rate in La Liga speaks for itself.

People had boxed me in as a 'pretty girl with followers that's rapping,' but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.

I don't have anything to prove because I've already validated myself and my work speaks for itself.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.

I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.

I have 100% confidence in Rob Pelinka running our basketball operations. I've always had confidence in Rob. Whatever the speculation is out there, we don't need the outside media to validate what we do.

Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.