Quotes About Validation

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. —WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910)

He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn't even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.

For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make the same amount of noise for you, you feel like you've failed.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.

I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

Sometimes people expect you to be something that you're not or want you to be something that is out of your philosophy, yet they claim they are a fan. Like, 'I'm really your fan, but you should get a nose job!' That's not really a fan.