Quotes About Validation

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times?

Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: Happiness is my choice. I don't need anyone's approval to be happy. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close." PSALM 27:10 (NLT) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: Whose opinion matters most to me? Whose approval am I living for?

Paul said, "You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.

if you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished? Who cares if you impress others? Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?

The goal is to convert assumptions to knowledge as quickly and cheaply as possible.

and massive numbers of assumptions are tested.

people seek out information that suggests they are correct, in a world of transient advantage the most valuable information is often disconfirming—it helps highlight where the greatest risks in being wrong are.

In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

What did you get, Mr Edwards?' 'Three As.' 'And what were you expecting?' Mr Edwards looks right into the camera and, completely deadpan, says, 'Three As.' For Edwards, the perfectionist, this still wasn't good enough. He wanted no, needed - to be the best and a simple grade wasn't enough to confirm this, even to himself.

When I got my A-Levels, I got straight As, but I thought they weren't as good as other people's straight As,' said Edwards. 'They would look at me as if their As were better. We didn't get percentage marks, so three As weren't enough. I wanted to know I'd got, like, ninety-flve per cent. Three As is meaningless unless you're arrogant enough to think you're as good as them. Which I'm not. I need to see it written down to know.

Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.

By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves. Seeking

IF I can hide my flaws and become what I think others want me to be •?THEN I will be loved, get my needs met, and have a problem-free life.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

He could not afford to believe anything that he was told, or that he read, or that was implicitly assumed to be true about the world around him. No, he could not believe any of it, for the sum total of what be had been told and read and been taught in school was so contradictory, so senseless, so wildly insane that none of it could be believed unless he personally confirmed it.

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.

As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.

The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

In the short run, Orr's law always holds: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.*

What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves . . . whether you are living in a Christian reality-tunnel, a Mansonoid reality-tunnel, an Immortalist reality-tunnel, a vegetarian reality-tunnel, a Rationalist reality-tunnel . . .