Validation Need Quotes

I realize my need to be liked or my need for strangers to rate me well, even with their words and their thoughts, I'm not alone in that, and the whole thing is set up culturally so we feel that way.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

I'm never happy with the work I put in. No. I need to be told by my director and people around me that it is fine. Otherwise, I'll even go, like, 'One more take.'

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

I was 19, so validation played a huge role in my taking part in Miss India.

It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

I only come to life when there are people watching.

I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.