Quotes About Approval

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

It's always nice when your work is recognized.

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I never looked out for MTV... I just looked for the approval of the streets... The streets will always let you know.

When I go out on the streets, plenty of people still show that they like me.

It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or the execs, they like it, then you'll stick with it. That's a good thing, as opposed to having something that's already written.

When I first started the biggest thing I wanted was for the opposition to acknowledge me.

Getting respect from the opposition is a nice thing.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

I think we are becoming more obsessed about getting a certain amount of likes on our Twitter and Instagram accounts rather than actually living a proper, real, honest and organic life.

Not being part of the BBC with 'Top Gear' any more does pain me, because it's an organisation I approve of.