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• To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

  Marty Neumeier

  Comfort, Needs, Peers

  Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.76, Peachpit Press

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• The Gospel Prayer
  In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.
  Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.
  As You have been to me, so I will be to others.
  As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Compassion, Joy

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.248, B&H Publishing Group

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• Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after I have proved to the individual that I highly value him. If they know we care for them, our correction won’t be seen as judgmental. I also try to never make it personal.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Care, Judgmental

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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Pleasing Others, Contentment, Able

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• We are not going to allow to a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him. We are not asking his approval to be free. I hope Robert Mugabe, a sick and old man, you are listening. We mean business.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Mean, Men, Sick

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• President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

  Jay Leno

  Approval Rating, President, United States

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• In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

  Mark Cuban

  Technology, Order, Tasks

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• If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Simple, Games, Play

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• Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Angel, Blessing

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• Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

  Edward Bernays

  Engineering, Organization, Goal

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.159, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Approval Of Others, Live Your Life

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.267, Jaico Publishing House

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• The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Steps, Facts

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

  Jackie Olson

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Self Confidence

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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• Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

  George Takei

  Roaring, Done, Cheerleader

  George Takei (2015). “To The Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

  Paul Rudd

  Needs, Actors

  "Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.

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• I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

  Minka Kelly

  Thinking, Attractive Things, Validation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children's prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Children, Wall

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• The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Wise, Appreciation

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• If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Insecure, Seeking, Hard

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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