Quotes About Validation

With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

Are we all unhappy with our true selves, and likes and follows are what give us value?

I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

Narcissists - people with an inflated self-concept and a strong sense of uniqueness and superiority - seek attention and affirmation on Facebook.

I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.