100+ Validation Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.13, Writer's Digest Books

topic: Hard Work, Validation, Ideas

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

- Jody Watley

topic: Validation, Giving, Waiting

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

- John Edward

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Validation, Survival

We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."

- Jordan Peele

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Validation, Needs, Boundaries

Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, suggests that this is partly because only one percent of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound, and partly because many treatments have never been assessed at all.

- Kenny Ausubel

topic: New York, Editors, Validation, Medical Treatment

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Validation, People, Advice, Being Happy With Yourself, Happy With Yourself

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

- Kurt Hanks

topic: Confidence, Validation, Needs, Discernment

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

- Lee Child

topic: Book, Validation, Needs

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

topic: Validation, Taste, Poetic, Linton

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

- Marlee Matlin

topic: Validation, Way, Said, Thanking Him

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

- Matthew Lillard

topic: Glasses, Years, Validation, Old You, Learning Disability

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

- Maud Adams

topic: Insecure, Thinking, Validation

I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

- Minka Kelly

topic: Thinking, Validation, Guy, Attractive Things

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

- Paul Ricoeur

source: Paul Ricoeur (2006). “From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II”

topic: Moving, Validation, Two, Dogmatism

I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

- Ricki-Lee Coulter

topic: Media, Validation, People

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

- Ryne Sandberg

topic: Sports, Hard Work, Validation

Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Husband, Validation, Ideas, Coworker

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Husband, Moving, Validation, Spanx, Co Worker

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Validation, Giving, Approval

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

- Tahereh Mafi

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Thinking, Validation, People

The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.

- Derek Ridgers

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Encouragement, Validation, Might, Personal Interest, Global Village

I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.

- Eric Andre

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Insecure, Years, Validation

Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.

- Erin Willett

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: Artist, Validation, Scary

I always tell people, don't worry about the haters, you are not a jackass whisperer. You have to be enough. You have to be your own validation.

- Jane Park

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Validation, People, Worry, Jackasses

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

- Jerry Pinkney

topic: Validation, People, Use

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

- Jesse Harris

topic: Song, Nice, Validation

Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.

- Joe Sacco

topic: Unique, Validation, Looks

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

- Lupita Nyong'o

topic: Beautiful, Validation, Shade, Beautiful Inside, External Beauty

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

- Maureen Murdock

topic: Validation, Source

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

- Richard Patrick

topic: Nice, Validation, Proud

You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."

- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

topic: Men, Validation, Space, Common Things

Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

- Trisha

topic: Validation, People, Trying, Trying So Hard

There's nothing more exciting than to have a project that you like, that you're proud of, and you're waiting for that validation for the world to see it and say, "Yeah! You know what? That was pretty damn funny!"

- Will Packer

topic: Validation, Waiting, World

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

- Aaron Rose

topic: Artist, Validation, Acclaim

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing.

- Abby Wambach

topic: Sadness, Games, Validation, Masochism, Masochistic

You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.

- Matthew Kahn

topic: Love You, Validation, Giving

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

- Hannah Hart

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Thinking, Validation, Careers

Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

- Iman Abdulmajid

source: Source: us.hellomagazine.com

topic: Children, Validation, Decision, Personal Needs

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 28, 2010

topic: Validation, People, Important

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Self, Validation, Needs, Alleys, Railway Station

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

- Steven Pressfield

source: Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.71, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

topic: Real, Validation, Empowering

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Validation

When you audition for something you do feel a little bit more legit. It's a validation that you are the right person for the job because they've chosen and they've seen you do something connected to that role.

- Luke Evans

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Jobs, Validation, Roles, Legit

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.

- T. D. Jakes

source: "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Validation, People

If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance.

- T. Harv Eker

source: FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 02, 2010

topic: Believe, Validation, Secret

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Self, Punishment, Validation

He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

- Tiffanie DeBartolo

source: Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.74, Sourcebooks, Inc.

topic: Validation, Waiting, Feelings, Waiting For Something

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Movie, Thinking, Validation, Rocket Science

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

- Ray Romano

topic: Kids, Validation, Comedian

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

- Raymond Carver

topic: Validation, Firsts, Creation

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

- Anurag Kashyap

source: "Cannes 2012: Anurag Kashyap on 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 1969.

topic: Home, Validation, Justified

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

- Greg Graffin

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Data, Validation, Basics

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

topic: Sad, Self, Validation

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

- Art Spiegelman

source: "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

topic: Art, Thinking, Validation, Sept 11, Art And Culture

You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

- Guillermo del Toro

source: Interview with Charlie Day, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

topic: Hurt, Maturity, Validation, Commentary

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

- Tullian Tchividjian

source: Source: www.lifeisstory.com

topic: Validation, Miserable, Source, Primary Source

When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Creativity, Artist, Validation

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

topic: Mean, Validation, Ideas, Majority Vote, Implementing

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.450, Penguin

topic: Mean, Independent, Validation

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Validation, Rejection, Doe, Place And Time

It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.

- Ben Affleck

source: Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Thinking, Validation, Ideas

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.

- Herbert Marcuse

source: Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

topic: Light, Validation, Finals, Social Theory, Denied

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Acceptance, Validation, Hardest

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

topic: Real, Believe, Validation

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

- Russell L. Ackoff

topic: Successful, Validation, Common Sense

You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.

- Bradford Cox

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Acceptance, Thinking, Validation

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.

- Murray Bookchin

topic: Beautiful, Validation, Cities, City Planning, Sanitary

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

topic: Validation, Ideas, People, Validity

Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Assessment, Validation, Alternatives, Always Remembering

Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.

- Sharon Salzberg

topic: Offering, Validation, Generosity

I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale", www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

topic: Success, Validation, People

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