Quotes About Validation

Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right. "No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right

his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.

Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.

If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.