Quotes About Validation

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

I can't get no respect.

It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

Man is a foolish creature who wants above all to have someone else know about him.

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

All the girls, other than me, wanted the same things: to own a pair of stockings so their legs would not look bare and childish in their humiliating ankle socks; to have the best notebooks to record song lyrics, those sickeningly sweet words of dreams and loves and hearts; to be praised by the teachers, but more importantly, to be admired and envied by one another; to catch the attention of the right boys.

Stripped of audience, originality would be much less at ease with itself.

And when we cannot fully understand the significance of something, when we cannot validate the total experience with the senses – can't see, can't taste, can't smell, can't touch, can't hear, and cannot conceive – we are left with a choice: to deny or to believe.

Yo era el único que no tenía tuberculosis. Fingía padecer una afección cardíaca. Vivíamos en unos años en los que era preciso estar en posesión de una de estas dos cosas: medallas o enfermedades.

Turing knew from personal experience that it didn't matter who you really were – it mattered only what others thought about you. According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won't matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it. The

Success is not guaranteed. Males in particular live in constant dread of losing their claim to manhood. Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives, just so that people will say 'He's a real man!

O sucesso não é garantido. Os indivíduos do sexo masculino, em particular, vivem um temor constante de perder sua afirmação de masculinidade. Durante toda a história, estiveram dispostos a arriscar e até mesmo sacrificar a vida, apenas para que as pessoas dissessem: "Ele é um homem de verdade!".

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

We often forget to love ourselves and wonder why nobody loves us.

What others think does not matter. What you think about you is what matters.

Please remember that pleasing another is not the same as caring for another.