Quotes About Approval

Uma ideia fixa: "O que vão pensar da gente?" (os vizinhos, os clientes, todo mundo). A regra básica era sempre dar um jeito de escapar à crítica dos outros, sendo muito educado, não emitindo opiniões, ou vigiando o tempo todo o próprio temperamento, para não deixar escapar nada que pudesse ser julgado pelos outros.

Je me souviens d'avoir pensé que ce n'était pas le genre dont j'aurais pu être enceinte. « C'est un très gentil garçon, n'est-ce pas ? » Le docteur souriait et il a paru heureux de mon approbation. Il avait oublié pourquoi j'étais là. Quand il m'a raccompagnée à la porte, il paraissait soulagé. Il ne m'a pas dit de revenir.

Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.

If you want to promote me, promote me.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

We're actually able to approve pipelines at a time when everyone wants protection of the environment. We're being able to show that we get people's fears, and there are constructive ways of allaying them - and not just ways to lash out and give a big kick to the system.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I am proud people still like me. That is what is most important in life.

No matter how old we are, there is nothing better then getting the approval from our parents and the sense that they are proud of our accomplishments in life.

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do--they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Between 1947 and 1989, when America was on the one hand building up the liberal international order, it attempted regime change around the world seventy-two times, by one scholar's count, almost every time without UN approval.

I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.

Backstreet Boys have an international fan base, and fans love what we do. I didn't want to be one of those artists that does something totally different so people would ask, 'Why did he do that?' Is he not proud?'

Even I get fan mail.

I think most Australians would favor what I did. At least I hope they do.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

As a filmmaker when you show your film to anybody, you want it to be liked. You want the reviews to be positive. After watching your film, you want people to feel good.