Quotes About Approval

This button introduced a rich new stream of social approval indicators that arrive in an unpredictable fashion—creating an almost impossibly appealing impulse to keep checking your account. It also provided Facebook much more detailed information on your preferences, allowing their machine-learning algorithms to digest your humanity into statistical slivers that could then be mined to push you toward targeted ads and stickier content.

Some things are best kept to yourself. Particularly when you're not sure whether or not other people will approve, but you're pretty sure they won't.

With approval functionality, contracts (or trusted accounts) can be whitelisted to act as custodians for a user's tokens without directly holding the token balance. This widens the scope of possible applications because users retain full custody before an approved spender executes a transaction.

on what basis do we decide whether we can accept a new project.

You may recognize them as rigid project plans, inflexible procurement processes, powerful architecture review boards, infrequent release schedules, lengthy approval processes, strict separation of duties …

Everybody doesnt have to like your material - just somebody who can write checks that dont bounce.

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.

Esos desaires no me quitan el sueño: no tengo que agradar a todo el mundo, sólo a quienes en verdad me importan, que no son muchos.

It's true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.