Quotes About Validation

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because I didn't feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, 'It's just like sad girl music - it's like Taylor Swift.'

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

What's great about having the live audience is you know immediately if you're funny or not. That always helped when we were doing 'Hannah Montana;' it teaches you if something worked or didn't.

I think there's a lot of people that still don't believe in me, and obviously, I love proving people wrong and helping the football team win games any possible way I can.

I take my teammate's praises very well. It means I am doing my job well.

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

I just want to go out there and try to get my respect from my teammates and my coaches.

I used to care a lot about what other people thought - like teammates.

I can't answer what coaches value me more. I don't really look for that answer. I look to see if my teammates accept who I am as a basketball player and as a person.

It's a great honor to be named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a starter. It's great to earn respect from your teammates and coaches, but to also get that same respect from other players around the league and then the fans - that is special.

Don't worry about what people think, because once it's all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don't love you will, too.

When people want to get appreciation and fear they are not, their behavior becomes more attention getting, forcing others to notice them.

Even if you become a very fine actor, if you are inordinately attached to your act, you will notice that you feel empty much of the time, for you will realize that the critics' acclaim and the loud applause from your audience are offered in response to your act rather than to the natural you.

Would you feel better inside if someone said to you that they really "need" you, or if they said, "I really love you and I want to be with you?