Quotes About Approval

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

Me gusta su espíritu, Mr. Watson. Me gusta muchísimo, de verdad, aunque, como se puede imaginar, lo desapruebo oficialmente.

She looked up with a certain anxiety. 'But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?' He shook his head.Like so much meat. 'You think I'm all right.' Another nod. 'In every way?' 'Perfect.' he said aloud. And inwardly, 'She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat.

Imaginen la locura que representa permitir que la gente se entregue a juegos complicados que en nada aumentan el consumo. Pura locura. Actualmente los Interventores no aprueban ningún nuevo juego, a menos que pueda demostrarse que exige cuando menos tantos aparatos como el más complicado de los juegos ya existentes. -Se interrumpió espontáneamente-. He aquí un grupito encantador -dijo, señalando

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni nodded his head.

I put it to him bluntly: 'Look here, Oleg—you're a charming escort, but in my opinion you are a very poor risk for a marriage.'" And then Margaret Kelly said something that might have turned Grace's resentment into loud laughter: "Of course I never interfere, even when I do not approve.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

rearranges the truth so that people will like

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

In the early days of my career, I always wrote with skeptics in mind, trying to make sure they would approve of my work.

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.