Validates Quotes

#1. There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening ... honor washes away the stench of shame.

Jo Ann Fore

#2. I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to soak in, learn from, relate to. In some ways, it validates their experience, which for teens (or for anybody, really) is a pretty huge deal.

Deborah Reber

#3. The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Mel Brooks

#4. Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Seth Godin

#5. The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Teju Cole

#6. When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

Simon Hoggart

#7. Being supportive validates accomplishments and it also validates our relationship if we show them their importance.

Kcat Yarza

#8. Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.

Gary Zukav

#9. It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

Mick Jagger

#10. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.

Lindsay Anderson

#11. I need my career. That's what validates me.

Anita Baker

#12. I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

Gale Harold

#13. I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

Richard Lewis

#14. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T ... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

Cheryl Hines

#16. The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

Lillian B. Rubin

#17. The bracelet validates that my memory is a real one.

Colleen Hoover

#18. For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life.

Julian Barnes

#19. A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Kevin Nealon

#20. The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Stephen Wolfram

#21. If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

Mike Davidson

#22. I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

Sheryl Crow

#23. Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

Deborah Reber

#24. Every mujahadeen who comes in from outside the country finds an environment where Arabic is spoken. So in that sense, it's a tremendous come-on for the young in Islam. But I think much more important is, it just validates so much of what the Muslim world is predisposed to believe.

Michael Scheuer

#25. If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Ryne Sandberg

#26. A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

Ryne Sandberg

#27. The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Bill Crawford

#28. Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Hal Duncan

#29. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

Robert B. Parker

#30. It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Daniel Barber

#31. The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

Stephen Covey

#32. Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

#33. I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

Patricia McCormick