Quotes About Validation

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Being right does not always bring satisfaction

I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.

Cord followed up with, "I like it here, but it's beginning to feel creepy. Does anyone else think it's creepy?" "You're talking to a bunch of guys," Yul said. "No one here is going to validate your feelings." She tossed sand at him.

It's just like the reviews promised—other people's ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting than being me.

And this all fits very well with the modern way of thinking about stuff in which all you need to do, in order to attain a sense of personal accomplishment and earn the accolades of your peers, is to demonstrate an ability to slot new examples of things into the proper intellectual pigeon-holes.

The three-ringer gives her a quick look, just long enough to make sure she is really a person, not a sack of flour or an engine block or a tree stump.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Yet I tell you this: So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Indeed, upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

The Olympics owes its existence to the search for people who perform faster, higher, and stronger among us. Standardized exams, game shows, beauty contests, talent auditions, and the Forbes 400 all pit humans against humans, in rank order. Society offers hundreds, if not thousands of ways to show you're better than others.

Precisa de mais amaciante para o ego?

That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods.

For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.