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Tag Name "Approval" (354)

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The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.
Jon Weisman
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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Garrison Keillor
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We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.
Esther Hicks
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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.
George Carlin
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Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
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The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.
Susan Jeffers
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There was a day when I died died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will died to the world, its approval or censure died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
George Muller
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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
Gloria Steinem
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The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.
Kellyanne Conway
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But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
Thomas E. Mann
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When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
Deepak Chopra
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All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.
Zig Ziglar
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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
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The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.
Joseph Crowley
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I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
Madonna Ciccone
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Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
Edwin A. Abbott
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In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
Arthur Ekirch
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
Kofi Annan
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Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that appreciates grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.
Doc Childre
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As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation.
Henry B. Eyring
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Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
Paulo Coelho
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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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