Quotes About Approval

And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me why but he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I can't like you,either.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

Sometimes, you wanna be appreciated for what you did.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

And I hate to bring this up because I'm a 47-year-old man, but I think I was always wanting my dad's approval. We knew he loved us, but he was a different generation.

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

It's a great feeling to be admired... what can I say? It's a warm, gooey feeling.

I feel so happy and warm inside that I've made my parents proud.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

What I found fascinating for me was, I've never gotten so much approval and accolades and warmth and congratulations as when I had a guy on my arm that people thought I was going to marry. It was amazing. I mean, nobody congratulated me that hard when I had my three children.

I know firsthand that it's difficult to get a FISA warrant. From 2002 to 2005, when I was an F.B.I. agent conducting counterintelligence investigations in New York, my FISA applications went through many layers of approval and required very strong evidence.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Few perfectionists can tell the difference between love and approval. Perfectionism is so widespread in this culture that we actually have had to invent another word for love. 'Unconditional love,' we say. Yet, all love is unconditional. Anything else is just approval.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about what other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.