Quotes About Approval

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It's my belief, for what it's worth, that a lot of writers consign to the page what they think will meet with the approval, especially in the moral realm, of what their society has preached to them since they were children, almost all of which is utter bull####.

He had spent forty years noticing that when women cut their hair short, other women would say it was "cute" or "smart" or some such thing, but he had never, in any of the thousand times when he'd seen it, heard anything approaching approval by any male.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. —WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910)

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

How will we live if we think we need to earn God's approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God's approval in Christ?

Initially my father was not very happy with the mimicry stuff, but when he saw that it was giving me direction he had no problems.

I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me.

I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud of Jimmy now that he's a successful actor?' And my dad was like, 'No, not really. I wish he was a scientist.' I guess scientist is more noble in the Asian culture.

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

I notice the fans' support, it makes me feel well-liked.

It's good to be noticed when you are proud of your work.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.