Validation Quotes - Page 3

• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• 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

  Children, Decision, Needs

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Taste, Poetic, Linton

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• Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

  Amber Heard

  Fashion, Hands, People

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• 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

  Light, Finals, Analysis

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

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• 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

  Giving, Approval, Authority

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• 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

  Offering, Generosity, Giving

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• I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

  Curtis Jackson

  Stars, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.

  Jack Heffron

  Hard Work, Ideas, Needs

  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

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• 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

  Beautiful, Cities, City Planning

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• 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

  Waiting, World, Proud

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.

  Reggie Crist

  Moving, Pride, Winning

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• 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

  Jobs, Roles, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

  Jeff Atwood

  Pain, Exercise, Differences

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• 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

  Insecure, Years, Needs

  Source: www.complex.com

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• 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

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Firsts, Creation, Accepted

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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Kids, Comedian, Needs

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• 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

  Nice, Proud, Down And

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Artist, Scary, Path

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Insecure, Thinking

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• 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

  People, Use, Recognition

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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