Quotes About Validation

There's a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it's a very odd one.

Our ambition isn't just to be big, it's to be listened to and supported by people. And to have the success - if we deserve it, of course.

My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

Donald's need for affirmation is so great that he doesn't seem to notice that the largest group of his supporters are people he wouldn't condescend to be seen with outside of a rally.

In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting.

The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

It's reassuring knowing that people are supporting me and want to know more about me. It comes with being the national champion and making the Olympic team. I think that it's telling me I'm on the right path.

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

When they announce who I am and what I've achieved, I still pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.

Slowly but surely, as time goes on, people forget about you. People stop talking about you. You stop seeing your name in the papers. I like to believe that I don't think that will bother me. As long as I know I've achieved my goals and people believe I'm the best at what I do, then I'll be happy.

I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his father.' I don't know whether that happens, but because of who Ma is, a lot of people have an opinion, which they form before they get to know me or before they see what I can do.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

I'm surprised that anyone cares about what I do.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.