Approval Quotes - Page 19

• By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

  Edith Sitwell

  Happiness, Mean, Would Be

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

  Edith Wharton

  Style, Care, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.174, Library of America

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• Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

  Ellen Goodman

  Educational, After Hours, Television

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “Close to home”, Fawcett

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• How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Imagination, Actors

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• Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that's what I like about the western world's most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.

  Roseanne Barr

  Sleep, People, World

  Roseanne, Roseanne Barr (1989). “Roseanne: my life as a woman”, Harpercollins

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

  Diana Vreeland

  Guy, Energy, Looks

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• Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Exercise, Simple

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  Freda Adler

  Fashion, Long, Deception

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• How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Self, Order, Camouflage

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  People, Wonder, Shyness

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.

  J. G. Holland

  Song, Encouragement, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, May, Bills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

  Kit Reed

  Devalue, Constant, Predictable

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• There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

  Norah Vincent

  Differences, Tolerance, Demand

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• If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

  Tomas Kalnoky

  Be True To Yourself, Being True, Seeking

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• For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

  Faith Sullivan

  Hard Work, Rejection, Soul

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• pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Lonely, War, Moving

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• In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.

  James Hollis

  Loss, Play, Soul

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• I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

  Andrew Stanton

  Parent, Realizing, Craving

  "Andrew Stanton: why I had to make John Carter the movie" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 01, 2012.

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

  Octave Feuillet

  Enemy, Next, Disapproval

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• If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

  Ali MacGraw

  Baby, Media, Shining

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doe, Needs, Social

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