Quotes About Approval

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say 'Well done.'

Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, has managed to retain high approval ratings despite his slumping economy by seizing Crimea from Ukraine and participating in the Syrian war that is destabilizing the Mideast and, increasingly, Europe and the West.

Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

It always feels good when you hear another guy in your industry give you praise.

We all want to be praised, right?

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

My diet and exercise habits - which make me feel good and earn my doctor's approval - have made it easy to lose the bulk of the weight I gained during pregnancy.

From a personal point of view, when you're hitting the back of the net at Premier League level people recognize that you're doing something right.

When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

A President cannot always be popular.

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Of course you can't go wrong with Daniel Kitson.

I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'Oh, he won't work,' and I thought, 'Yeah, you watch.'

I love Danny Ainge.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

I love Howard Dean.