Quotes About Validation

Just because you say you are great doesn't mean you are.

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.

The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.

You are good enough. You don't need to prove anything to anyone - just to yourself.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I tell him he's a good boy. He says he knows it. "Good boy sure," he says. I want to dig down way far into his brain and find out some of his details. How does he know? What makes him so convinced?

Cred c? cel mai mare dar pe care l-a? putea primi de la cineva este s? fiu v?zut?, ascultat?, in?eleas? ?i atins?.

Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.

Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write — W.S. Merwin, from "Berryman," Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Copper Canyon Press; English Language edition October 1, 1996)

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.