Stop Proving Quotes

#1. If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok.
If you could stop proving that you were ok, you could get that it was ok not to be ok.
If you could get that it was ok not to be ok you could get that you were ok the way you are.
You're ok, get it?

Werner Erhard

#2. Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

Anne Waldman

#3. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

Marlon James

#4. I tried once, you know, went to a dance all dressed up, but I felt like such a fool. Everyone kept making encouraging remarks about my looks as if they were afraid I'd cross back over the line again; I was trying, you know, I was proving their way of life was right, and they were terrified I'd stop.

Joanna Russ

#5. There aren't enough girl drummers.

Tobi Vail

#6. If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

D. B. Sweeney

#7. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods
not taking them too seriously.

Richard Carlson

#8. The game women play is men.

Adam Smith

#9. I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Judy Greer

#10. [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

James Nicoll

#11. The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

David Klass

#12. I'm saying maybe you should stop putting so much energy into lamenting the fact that [redacted] was wrong about you, and start putting your energy into proving her right, instead.

Marissa Meyer

#13. You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

Guy Finley