Quotes About Validation

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

I got told that Elton John might be ringing me - it was for his radio station - then he ended up calling and saying that he loves what I'm doing, my music.

People looking down, looking down, don't think a guy like my stature can be an All-Star. And every night I try to step out there and prove them otherwise.

The star family status can easily get you opportunities, but the offers dry up after a point when you don't prove yourself.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Every time you step on the field you have to reestablish and re-prove yourself.

I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.

In some instances, I don't care what people think. In other instances, I do - especially because of the stereotype. People take a look at me and say, 'She's cute. She's blond. She's an actress. She's a bimbo.' You know? So I take great pains to show I'm intelligent, to show I'm not a twinkie.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

While being alive is all right for the world's general population, some of us need to get it in writing that this is so.

When citizens are always performing for each other, they expect accolades and instant psychic rewards, even if they have not earned them, and they become angry and resentful if they do not get them.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it.