Quotes About Validation

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.

My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to be able to utter my name — Nicola Irtenieff — and at once to see every one thunderstruck at it, and come crowding round me and thanking me for something or another, I hardly knew what.

If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.

Don't trust anyone who keep telling you what's wrong with you,

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

All artists are terribly insecure people. They are desperate to be noticed.

If somebody tells us it's rubbish, then our attitude is that the person's misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.

When I was really small I thought I'd do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn't want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.

Even when ignored or denied, truth is the ultimate reference point.

Your core value does not rest on the words of your husband or your mother or your father or your children or even your best friend. It rests on God's words because he's the only one who will always tell you the truth all the time. People change. They fail. They lie. Their knowledge is limited, their thinking distorted, and their hearts are not always pure or good. Therefore it's dangerous to allow them to determine your worth.

It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life decisions based on its horoscope in USA Today would be right more often than you. But in this case, yes, you were right. Don't spoil it.

if you're too good too much of the time, people start to forget about you. You're not a problem, so people can strike you off their list of things to worry about.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

If they're not talking about you, you're not doing something; you're not doing anything. So if they're talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

If I was to get into Twitter I'd expose myself to people who adore me or people who absolutely hated me. Neither of those are useful to my soul.