#approval

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#disapproval #england #i #i can #jazz

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster. ↗

— Chris Morris

#disaster #ends #pursuit #usually

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. ↗

— Charles Schwab

#better #criticism #did #effort #exalted

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#administered #approval #case #court #done

Don't look at me in that tone of voice. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#humor #wordplay #humor

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#achievement

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#best #consciousness #doing #except #look

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#approval #comedians #desperately #disorder #job

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#give #least #most #seek #those