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Quotes About Approval

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment
~ James Bryan Smith
El Nuevo Testamento no parece avergonzarse de las imprecaciones del Antiguo Testamento; de lo contrario, las cita libremente como afirmaciones autoritativas con las cuales puede dar fundamento a un argumento. El Nuevo Testamento no solo cita pasajes que, aunque en sí no sean imprecaciones, se encuentran en un Salmo que contiene una sección imprecatoria; sino que además, y esto es aun más llamativo, cita con aprobación las imprecaciones mismas.
~ James E. Adams
Lady Byron noted with obvious approval that her daughter was more impressed with meeting scientists on Wednesday, June 5, 1833, rather than royalty. In particular Ada greatly enjoyed meeting the forty-four-year-old Charles Babbage: Ada
~ James Essinger
you're angling for me to sanction petrol for you to go to
~ James Follett
Yet while the Trump administration's record has been deplorable, this historical analysis points out that, in many respects, the Trump administration's record is not much worse on energy or exacerbating the climate crisis than some prior administrations, and generally continues forward the stamp of approval for fossil energy that every president before Trump has likewise backed.
~ James Gustave Speth
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.
~ James Lee Burke
John 5:44, Jesus continued, "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
~ James MacDonald
What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.
~ James P. Carse
I don't think I'd like it if people liked me, I'd think that something had gone wrong.
~ James Purdy
Half [of] us approve of other people's daughters having children out of wedlock, but hardly any of us approve of that for our daughters. [We] don't wish to be 'judgmental,' unless [we are judging] something we care about, [like] the well-being of the people we cherish
~ James Q. Wilson
For all these reasons Eisenhower's first term witnessed little significant domestic legislation. Aside from the extension of Social Security, which had the support of an increasingly well organized lobby for the elderly, the only important law approved was the Interstate Highway Act of 1956.
~ James T. Patterson
Largely to gain Nellie's approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. "Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he writes," he told her. "His heroes have failings human character is heir to, and we like them none the less on that account.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Kate approved of the child's father, and so did she. Kate all her life had championed the underdog, and so therefore did she. And what more oppressed puppy in all the world was she likely to find than this one?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.
~ Dorothy Kelley Patterson
Placetne, magistra? Placet.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
~ Douglas Adams
Please all, and you will please none.
~ Aesop
In trying to please all, he had pleased none.
~ Aesop
Bir sanatç?n?n doyum bulmas?, yap?t?n?n ba?kalar? taraf?ndan be?enilmesi, alk??lanmas?yla olanakl?d?r ancak. Bunu yeni anl?yorum. Ben de, zekâm ve kurnazl???mdan ötürü hayranl?k toplamak isteyen bir zavall?y?m.
~ Agatha Christie
The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy. The pullover for Hector, too…her mind dwelt with approval on the soundness of her purchases.
~ Agatha Christie
Saya katakan padanya bahwa saya boleh menamakan diri saya Nemesis, Dewi Keadilan, dan dia suka sekali mendengarnya.
~ Agatha Christie
Not that I approve of women in politics—St. Stephen's is ruined, absolutely ruined, nowadays. But woman in her own sphere can do wonders.
~ Agatha Christie
Contentment is created when your behaviour is consistent with your values. When you act in ways that are consistent with the core of who you are, even when your actions aren't approved by others, you increase your overall contentment. Happiness, success, money, relationships, and even the approval of others will come and go in your life, but what is ultimately satisfying is feeling content.
~ Alan Downs
We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.
~ Alan Downs