Quotes about Validation
If you want to know the truth about what you've built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.
- Jason Fried
There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.
- Edith Wharton
All it takes is a tradition of demeaning, critical words from the right person. All it takes is nothing from the right person. No interest in you, no words spoken to you, no love. If you are treated as if you do not exist, you will feel shame.
- Edward Welch
When you're given a platform, and you're allowed to perform, and someone's there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that's a nice feeling.
- Florence Pugh
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
- Ilaiyaraaja
I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.
- Phil Jones
Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.
- Jen Sincero
It's not annoying to get a compliment.
- Harris Faulkner
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.
- John Mayer
As a 17-year-old kid, people put you on this podium, and it seems like you're just a source of entertainment for people. I felt like I was swimming for other people and they'd never be satisfied.
- Caeleb Dressel
Our institutions and our expectations, including our churches, are almost entirely configured to encourage, support, reward, and validate the tasks of the first half of life.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whatever you trust to validate you and secure you is your real god, and the Gospel is saying, "Will the real God please stand up?
- Fr. Richard Rohr