Quotes About Validation

I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.

The meeting wasn't really necessary to convey status; there are many less wasteful ways to do that. The need that was being served was not the boss's need for information, but for reassurance.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Experts are people who have the same opinions as other experts.

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

It was enough for me anyway to write the poems; there was no hurry to show them to a world that so far had only laughed and scorned them.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

BARBARA: God, Deon, you look really good. You really . . . filled out. Nicely, I mean. You just look great. SHERIFF GILBEAU: Thanks. BARBARA: How 'bout me, don't I look good? SHERIFF GILBEAU: Yes, sorry, yes. You look great, too, just great.

She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors.

When you're a mother, nobody's saying, 'You're doing a really good job; you're so great; what initiative, mopping up that vomit!

Everyday I receive a lesson that teaches me that I can't let what others think of me define me.

It's time to prove that you really do belong in this prophecy.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?

when leaders fail to tell employees that they're doing a great job, they might as well be taking money out of their pockets and throwing it into a fire

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.

Christian Nice Girls tend to minimize their negative experiences by saying, "What happened to me wasn't that bad. Other people have had it worse.

Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.

Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. 99% of people reading Ulysses are thinking I'm reading Ulysses as they do it.