Personal Validation Quotes

My mother-in-law thinks I'm more beautiful than all the other faces around. She keeps encouraging me to take up more work.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing, because from all the compliments I've received so far, it sounds like I'm on the right track.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

The thing for me is, if I wanted a co-sign, then I would rather the co-sign be to me personally than on social media. That way, it's just someone I respect telling me they respect what I'm doing.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.