Quotes About Validation

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.

You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself.

One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

The updated version of Descartes's Cogito is 'I am seen, therefore I am' – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that, along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their "rightness." The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them—loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.

Children don't need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged.

Parents don't usually give this kind of response, because they fear that by giving a name to the feeling they'll make it worse. Just the opposite is true. The child who hears the words for what she is experiencing is deeply comforted. Someone has acknowledged her inner experience.

Children Need to Have Their Feelings Accepted and Respected. 1. YOU CAN LISTEN QUIETLY AND ATTENTIVELY. 2. YOU CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR FEELINGS WITH A WORD.     ââ'¬Å"Oh . . . Mmm . . . I see . . ." 3. YOU CAN GIVE THE FEELING A NAME.     ââ'¬Å"That sounds frustrating!" 4. YOU CAN GIVE THE CHILD HIS WISHES IN FANTASY.     ââ'¬Å"I wish I could make the banana ripe for you right now!

Children often experience praise of a brother or sister as a put-down of themselves. They automatically translate, 'Your brother is so considerate' into 'Mom thinks I'm not.' It's a good idea to save our enthusiastic comments for the ear of the deserving child.

At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.

none of us are good enough for Alfred

Who waits around for a compliment? Ask for it. Then take it. And when you do, you realize you knew the truth all along and you didn't need anybody else's opinion in the first place. No one has to tell you that you did a good job.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

It has become routine to assume that the rewards of life are public and that our lives can be measured by how we are seen rather than what we do.