Quotes About Validation

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

Your reputation is none of your business.

I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.

Success is not measured by who you are, only by the perception of what others think you are

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.

You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.

Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.

You're…normal." "That's the first time anyone's called me that in my life

You invent it, he thought to himself. And then you maintain it until it's true.

The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

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