Quotes About Approval

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, "So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Der Schriftsteller Neale Donald Walsch schreibt: Solange du dir darüber Sorgen machst, was andere von dir denken, gehörst du ihnen. Nur wenn du keine Zustimmung von außen brauchst, kannst Dur dir selbst gehören.

There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won't eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make others believe they are better or stronger or more honorable. I have seen people poison themselves, destroy their children, abandon their mates, cut themselves off from the world, all so that others would think they were a better sort of person.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Lo que escapa a mi conocimiento, escapa a mi consentimiento.

Qualunque cosa esista, disse. Qualunque cosa esista nella creazione senza che io la conosca esiste senza il mio consenso.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

there was a different way I wrote when, even subconsciously, I was seeking male approval, male sexual approval: a more coy way, more reserved, more nervous about being perceived as angry or vulgar.

now I wonder where I had gotten the idea that for you to participate in a gathering, the other people had to really, really want you to be there and that anything short of rabid enthusiasm on their part meant you'd be a nuisance.

You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing.

This meant that an object like Brillo Boxes was baptized as 'art' if accepted by museum and gallery directors and purchased by art collectors.

Come and see what books I found you, he said. She followed him implicitly. Books did not matter to her. But he insisted on her approving. She gazed over his arm, not seeing. But she touched him.