Quotes About Validation

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me.

When it actually came to everyone clamoring to see the medal and talking about the experience, I began to feel empty inside. I started to feel that this piece of metal was worth more than I was as a person, and I think this began a spiral for me.

Proving to my friends, family, and the people that I love that they were wrong - that in spite of my age and my lack of experience, I could change sport and achieve something really special - gives me a lot of satisfaction.

People show love and things like that and I appreciate all of it, but you're only as good as that week so you've got to make sure that you continue to spoil the fans and the rest of the people out there in the world.

I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn't a spoiled blond actress.

Now, all the people who spoke before, when I won the Golden Ball, have shut their mouths now the coaches and players from national teams have given me this prize and this recognition.

I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

'Shaadi... ' made people see me as an actor. A lot of filmmakers called and said I was really good in the film... People from the industry - who never spoke to me, didn't think I was a great actor because they hadn't seen my work - said I can act.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.