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When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself. -- Carol S. Dweck
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. -- Allen Tate
I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating. -- Jake Owen
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing. -- Jon McGregor
It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. -- Sheena Easton
It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs. -- Blake Shelton
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. -- John Edward
The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013. -- Danny Danon
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card. -- Johnny Bench
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. -- Edward T. Hall
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival. -- Joan Halifax
By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television. -- Silvio Scaglia
I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself. -- Tori Spelling
For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating. -- Jennifer Nettles
I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school. -- Kyan Douglas
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college. -- Jeff Kinney
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. -- Barbara Kruger
It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us. -- Meghan Daum
The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you. -- Jon Oringer
In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life. -- Kelis
I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually. -- Christopher Rice
Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve." -- Steve Maraboli
I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different...quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings. -- Jennifer Beals
Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth. -- Robert Anthony
It's one of the most validating things you can do for a product is go out there and get them to commit to pay you up front. -- Emmett Shear
It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more. -- Gloria Estefan
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference. -- Jeff Atwood
Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence. -- Tony Blair
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations. -- Herbert Marcuse

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