Quotes about Validation

The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party validation. The amateur is tyrannized by his imagined conception of what is expected of him. He is imprisoned by what he believes he ought to think, how he ought to look, what he ought to do, and who he ought to be.

The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If we show our poem to our friend and our friend says, "It's wonderful, I love it," that's not real-world feedback, that's our friend being nice to us. Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Nothing but respect to all the fighters that are in the UFC, but every single one of us wants to prove something. And you know, eventually, I want to prove myself in that lightweight division too.

I am not one who needs to be patted on the back every single day and told I am brilliant. Some players need that, I don't.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.