Quotes About Validation

The man, whose self-esteem had always depended on the respect of others, is emotionally destroyed.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the servants' bedrooms. It would be rolled up and stuffed under a sofa. What was the good of doing it then, and she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those habitual currents in which after a certain time experience forms in the mind, so that one repeats words without being aware any longer who originally spoke them.

Sometimes she had it; sometimes not. She never knew why it came or why it went, or if she had it until she came into the room and then she knew instantly by the way some man looked at her

Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi.

Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

I have to do something purposeful with this new life – for myself as much as I want to show my people that I'm not the awful person they believe me to be. I need to prove that I have honor, that I'm worth something." "You don't have to prove a damn thing to anyone, Sia. You are all of those things already.

Tú no eres un error. Eres una criatura extraordinaria, Fenris, seas lo que seas'' Ronna

Então algo mais acontece: tudo que a criança escuta de si mesma, positivo ou negativo, tem relação com o personagem que encarna, e assim, em sua necessidade desesperada de ser amada, a criança tentará ser o mais valente dos valentes, a mais bela das belas ou o mais doente dos doentes. Por quê? Porque se os adultos, ao olhá-la, olham seu personagem, então para ser olhada ela terá de exibir seu disfarce a fim de ser o melhor de todos.

But now I saw the real problem with chasing after a man. It wasn't a matter of being unseemly or socially unacceptable or not playing the game right. It was just this: if I chase him, I'll never really know if he cares enough to chase me.

Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

But there is a kind of poem you can call a Hawkins poem as there is a kind of chair you can call a Hawkins chair, and the object of both is to get praise, which is the confidence in yourself that you get from people whom you have succeeded in pleasing when you haven't any confidence in yourself.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

Don't erase me

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

You are enough even if you don't see or know it

This was the first time since I'd started working there that I hadn't received a look of all-out disgust or, at the very least, a snarky comment, and all it had taken was a SWAT team of New York fashion editors, a collection of Parisian hair and makeup stylists, and a hefty selection of the world's finest and most expensive clothing.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

Proof, she told herself, that I'm just as smart as the others. That I belong.