Quotes About Validation

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

When I worked as music associate, I have observed my parents and grandparents waiting to see my name on the screen. But, it wouldn't be there.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

A strip of white paper was looped around the seat of the toilet bowl to certify that no one had sat there since the strip was placed in position. The toilet paper from the toilet-paper holder in the wall to the left of the toilet seat was soft and very absorbent, and would stick to the anus.

Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.

Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.

Jedina važna cena je ona koju sami sebi pripisujemo. Ukoliko sebi odre?ujemo previše nisku cenu i svet ?e se sa njom saglasiti. Ali ako prikažemo sebe u najboljoj svetlosti, svet ?e i tu našu procenu sebe samih spremno prihvatiti

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, "So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?