Quotes About Approval

To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt those opinions, and to adopt them is to approve of them.

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

We should forever forswear the masochistic process wherein we seek another's approval before we have even asked ourselves whether that person's views deserve to be listened to.

It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.

What dangers are posed by those touchingly insecure men who, unsure of their own powers of attraction, need to keep finding out whether they are acceptable to others.

Ce pericole produc acei b?rbaÈ›i înduio??tor de nesiguri care, necunoscându-È™i propria for?? de atracÈ›ie, au nevoie s? afle mereu dac? sunt acceptabili pentru alte persoane!

In conversations, my priority was to be liked, rather than to speak the truth. A desire to please led me to laugh at modest jokes like a parent on the opening night of a school play.

if we are prone to burst into tears after only a few harsh words about our character or achievements, it may be because the approval of others forms an essential part of our capacity to believe that we are right.

Independent souls find aliveness more attractive than social approval.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

Robinson's analysis. People invested in not knowing, not thinking about, certain things in order to have "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved" will be ecstatic when their instinct for consensus is gratified—and wrathful when it is thwarted.

And when people commend someone for "thinking for herself" they usually mean "ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.

you prove yourself worthy of an academic life is by getting very good grades, and you don't get very good grades without saying the sorts of things that your professors like to hear.

Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved

The greatest human fear is validation.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I haven't prescribed the birth control pill yet and I won't be starting today without getting approval from the man of the house.

he needed Daria's permission

What better substitute for real love than a sea of eager faces, beaming, laughing, applauding, and celebrating your existence?

as long as your girl can get dong then you are okay

As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…