Quotes About Validation

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Emotional Channeling Technique #3: Reference Validation Reference validation is a technique where you compare your situation to that of others who have successfully dealt with and overcome what you are currently experiencing. By doing so, you find strength and hope and learn specific strategies and concepts used by others so you too can effectively work through and resolve the issues you have.

All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

it's never a forgone conclusion that anyone is actually going to see your work, no matter how good it is. And if nobody reads it, it doesn't exist.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

One friend experienced enormous dukkha when she realized that men no longer looked at her when she walked down the street.

Am I odd? Is there something wrong with me, like Mrs. Tifton said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you.

No, you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect.

He wanted to understand what she felt, as well as what she thought, and his approving interest and encouragement made her feel deeply known and valued.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

What they call you is one thing, but what you answer to is so much more important.

It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all.

As adults, most of us become a lot more concerned about the opinions of others, often hesitating because people may laugh at us or criticize us. At the age of six, we knew we had to fall

But do I have "low intelligence"?

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

It's just a matter of telling yourself that your creation is OK, no matter what it is.

Some adults abused as children feel pressure to outperform everybody else. They believe that they must try harder and work harder because they are not as good. They may feel driven and obsessed.

I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.

Well, you just don't seem very...proud of me. He started to say that he was, but she interrupted him, saying, Don't. It's like my saying you never say you love me, and your saying it then. It doesn't matter, then. It doesn't count.