Quotes About Approval

I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer

Well," the officer said with a smile, "due to the fact that you are somewhat unsafe around here, we'll approve your request and let you go early. We can't have you crashing any more tanks.

What workaholics truly crave isn't work per se; it is success. They kill themselves working for money, power, and prestige because these are forms of approval, applause, and compliments—which, like all addictive things, from cocaine to social media, stimulate the neurotransmitter dopamine.[8]

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

I want the whole country to love me and I have no qualms in admitting it.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.

I may not be in the office as much as I was at the start of the business but when a new range is launched - and we have two, a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - each year, all designs come through me first to make sure I am happy with them.

When a team like Rangers is interested in you, it's something you have to look at and you know you're doing something right.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

One day I'd like to show what I can do as a coach in Germany. But I won't bend over backwards for a job in the Bundesliga and lock myself in my house for 24 hours just to win other people's approval.

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

People don't want to give me credit, which is fine.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

I'm just glad that people think I'm good. The other way around would not be fun!

I haven't heard a single negative thing. Everyone has glowing reviews. A lot of people have told me, 'If you can play for the Dodgers, you should. First class.'