I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
I'm not really concerned with the outer success.
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.
I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.
No aspect of my brief and mild fame actually made me happier.
An award does not change the quality of a book.
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.
The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.
