Quotes About Validation

After an hour of blather, I started to understand Tyler Durden. Human interaction to him was a program. Behavior was determined by frames and congruence and state and validation and other big-chunk psychological principles. And he wanted to be the Wizard of Oz: the little guy behind the curtain, pulling the strings that made everyone around him think he was a big and powerful master of the realm. I

He was a flower that bloomed with attention—be it positive or negative—and wilted when ignored. Peacock theory wasn't just to attract girls.

As I walked back to my room, a scene from The Wizard of Oz sprung into my head in which the Wizard tells the Tin Man, "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." I

He was validated. She was validated. They validated each other. They were a perfect pair, each completely unaware of the other. At

women tend to respond to status and social proof.

Simply by defining oneself as a PUA—a title earned solely by the responses of women—one becomes doomed to derive his entire self-esteem and identity from the attention of the opposite sex, not

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

the rule is, If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

He did not display his locomotive or his traction engine to his fellow professors, fearing that if he did so he would not be taken seriously when he spoke on mediaeval poetry.

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

It's about who walks into your life, says 'I'm here for you,' and then proves it.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.

I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters.

Big mouths can't do anything, you have to prove it in the cage.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali's model. He can say whatever he wants but he's got to prove it. If he doesn't prove it, his career is going to be short.

I needed to prove to myself - to the manager, to the fans, even to my mum and dad - that I'm not just an average player.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.