You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try. Build, release and iterate. Make… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no… — James Victore Copy Share Image
I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor… — Pat Quinn Copy Share Image
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs… — David Charvet Copy Share Image
I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
“I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and… — Arin Murphy-Hiscock Copy Share Image
I can't say that I'm not interested in your opinion or what you think about me..I'm simply saying that in any case… — Mac1nonly Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict… — William Beaumont Copy Share Image
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image