Quotes About Validation

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.

A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.

Making others right redeems their paltry and pointless educations. Making others right makes them love you

It's hard to explain to someone who's never had the experience—the unmistakable, life-altering moment when you read a book and realize that someone out in the world has read your mind and put into words all the thoughts and ideas crashing around inside your own head. For me, it was like Don Swanstrom

Since school, he'd come to expect so little from life. Nothing special, just to be treated with courtesy and politeness by the world. Wanted people to see him and not fear him, not admire him but just to see him. He wanted to be recognized so people would think twice before badgering or insulting him.

That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.

More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea... That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed, and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives. That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing.

It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.

People really need somebody they feel superior to.

We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like.

Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. He would have to show them.

Just because someone tells you in a reasonable way that you aren't really feeling what you're feeling, it doesn't make the feeling go away.

What has to prove true for this to work?

Worrying about what 'people are going to say' and 'what the neighbours might think' is always in the minds of working people. They aren't afraid of failure. They are afraid of success and how they would have to make excuses to their friends if it ever came their way.

Kauf nie ein Buch um der Bewunderung anderer wegen.

IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.

Plenty of boys had talked of the secret graveyard before, but as it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it.

Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.