Quotes About Approval

If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.

end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.

When the attending gave me the go-ahead

other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.

We can sometimes work long and hard to establish one beachhead of real resistance to the deaths we are expected to live, only to have that beachhead assaulted or threatened by those canards we have been socialized to fear, or by the withdrawal of those approvals that we have been warned to seek for safety

To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.

When you say, I need more confidence, what you're really saying is, I need those people over there to approve of me. That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think.

A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.

He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.

Aren't they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?" "—by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought—they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.

What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them." "I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.

Maybe he didn't encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him thinking different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.

You say true, I say thankya.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you're going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I'm sorry to say you're going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.