Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
An approval from God is the greatest approval on earth.
If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won't need our approval; they'll approve of t...
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
He who has approved of wrongdoing is as guilty as he who has committed it.
Something remarkable happens when you truly stop seeking other peoples approval, you automatically gain it, and find that others will then seek your approval.
The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.
This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those peopl...
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by crit...
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doi...
I have decided. I want to be about the cause of Jesus. I want to follow Christ, not the crowd.
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
