Quotes About Validation

Even after Dr. Barry Marshall, a gastroenterologist from Australia, proved he could cure ulcers with antibiotics to kill the bacteria (called Helicobacter pylori), his theory was still dismissed for more than a decade. It was only after he drank a beaker full of bacteria, caused an ulcer in himself, and cured it with antibiotics that his theory was accepted. Dr. Marshall won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

What if you tell a joke in the forest, and nobody laughs, was it a joke? —Steven Wright To create your comedic MAPP, you start with the purpose.

You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.

The 5 Clues to Spotting the Next Starbucks They permanently change people's habits. They're copycats. Their success is validated by the competition. They are driven by the founder's vision and passion. They have superb entrepreneurial management and execution.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

If you don't think you're funny, no one else will.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.