Quotes About Validation

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an actor,' 'You are not so and so's daughter.' I was even told, 'You are not a big, marketable name.'

I don't mind someone saying I'm not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you're faking an injury.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, 'You're not good enough.' 'There's always someone more popular.' 'There's always someone more gifted in music.'

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

For artists like me nothing matters more than the audience's respect.

When you do good work, people will notice you.

People need to know that what they're doing is making a difference and that their leaders notice and appreciate their efforts.

It's good to be noticed when you are proud of your work.

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.

It feels great when people talk about your craft and you get noticed for it.

When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was as though no one had noticed the work I'd already put in to make myself one.

I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.