Approval Quotes - Page 14

• Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

  Gregory Maguire

  Cat, Looks, Aberration

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• When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Cutting, Sacrifice, Self

  Tobias Wolff (2003). “Old School: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Thinking, Games

  "Joyful Christian".

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• I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, what acts she should perform on which date and what she should always or never do or say or want; I eavesdrop on women in cafes while they reel off lists of which jobs a man is allowed, which cars, which labels, which flowers and restaurants and gemstones get the stamp of approval, and I want to shout, Are you people out of your tiny minds?

  Tana French

  Jobs, Flower, Blow

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• Adrian gave the picture a nod of approval before handing me the phone. "Okay, even I can admit that's pretty cute." I found myself overanalyzing the comment. What had he meant in saying 'even he' could admit it? That I was cute for a human? Or that I had just met some kind of Adrian hot-girl criteria?

  Richelle Mead

  Cute, Girl, Phones

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.120, Penguin

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• The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.

  Matt Taibbi

  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.205, Spiegel & Grau

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• Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.

  John Green

  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Greatest Fear

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Passion, Approval Of Others, Insane

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• When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.

  Leslie Ludy

  Christian, Inspiration, People

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• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Zoos, Animal, Meat Eating

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

  Said Nursi

  Sake, Spheres

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• I hadn't realized how much I'd relied on his scowls or his shrugs or his grudging looks of approval to help me figure something out-until they weren't there anymore. Or how I could talk to some people about a lot of things but only to him about everything. And how unbelievably valuable that was.

  Karen Chance

  People, Looks, Helping

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• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

  Horace

  Gains, Pleasant, Persons

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• Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Blind Spots, Missing, Brain

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• Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Self Esteem, Love You, Love Life

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.30, Hay House, Inc

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• Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Approval Of Others, Looks, Stability

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• Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expectations

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• It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, Thinking, Dust

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• In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

  Anthony de Mello

  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

  B. C. Forbes

  Encouragement, Real, People

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• Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

  Leonard Rossiter

  Witty, Sex, Pornography

  "The Devil's Bedside Book". Book by Leonard Rossiter, p. 46, 1980.

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• If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

  Edward Hoagland

  Crazy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

  Jeff Barrett

  Powerful, Able, Social Media

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