Graham Moore Quotes

What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.

No need to prove anything - not in England or in Belgium.

Only other people can make you feel real.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?