Quotes About Approval

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.

HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be happy to have him, even if all he ever did was smile, for they imagined behind the mustache, behind the smile it hid, something sterner, more critical and yet, also, tolerant, so that when he smiled they felt themselves approved of and they vied with each other to like him best.

A decision has not been made until people know: • the name of the person accountable for carrying it out; • the deadline; • the names of the people who will be affected by the decision and therefore have to know about, understand, and approve it—or at least not be strongly opposed to it; and • the names of the people who have to be informed of the decision, even if they are not directly affected by it.

Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.

The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.

It would have been rewarding to talk to Dave, he decided. Dave would have approved what I did. But also he would have understood the other part, which I don't think even Mercer comprehends. For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything about me has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.

The audience agreed, Amen.

Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I'm very impressed with your creativity.

Members of the firm must feel that they have approved the leaders and that the leaders are accountable to them.

Status, prestige, authority, degree, licence, credential, badge of office, reputation, manners — all of these marks of social approval mean nothing to the NTs when the issue is the utility of goal-directed action.

Green tea? You can't be serious. The old woman nodded her approval. I wasn't. Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.

No! Tony/Toni/Toné exclaims. I saw the two of you canoodling. You're a regular Johnny Castle. I have no idea who Johnny Castle is, but I definitely approve of the name.

He smiles, and I feel better. I hate that his smile makes me feel better, because that implies I'm weak, that I need the approval of others to feel okay about myself.

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.

'Acceptance' is always a good word.

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

I am very happy that my fans have accepted 'Ek Hasina Thi' and my character Durga Thakur so warmly.

No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

Obviously as a player, it's good to feel wanted, and it's good for other people to acknowledge what you've been doing on the court.

Being acknowledged as one of the best is enough for me.