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Quotes About Approval

I can tell the crowd appreciates the way I play.
~ Vincent Janssen
Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
~ Anna Chlumsky
I always wanted my daddy to be proud.
~ Tonya Harding
Most definitely a daddy's girl... but I am close to both my parents. Amma is my biggest fan; Achan is my biggest critic, so it is difficult to please my father. I am always trying to make him proud.
~ Kalyani Priyadarshan
I don't give a damn about MVP.
~ Gary Payton
Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
~ Jensen Ackles
As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
~ Carlos Ghosn
I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.
~ Luke Pasqualino
Talent is being able to please people.
~ Marty Robbins
It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
When we're talking about brand, we're talking about what does the brand stand for. And when we're talking about approval, we're talking about whether or not I approve of what the brand stands for.
~ John Quelch
It would be a privilege to be accepted by the Glazer family in Tampa.
~ Jameis Winston
But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.
~ Jay Roach
We nod and grunt grudging affirmatives.
~ Richard Kadrey
I generally hate to like bosses, but I like him.
~ Richard Kadrey
The great silent majority.
~ Richard M. Nixon
We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me.
~ Richard Paul Evans
The relationship between a patient and a counselor is a peculiar thing. I find myself wanting to act more sane to win her approval.
~ Richard Paul Evans
He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
~ Richard Rorty
He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.
~ Richard Sibbes
Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.
~ Richard Steele