Computer scientists call validation: whereas verification asks 'Did I build the system right?', validation asks 'Did I build the right system?' — Max Tegmark
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — Paul Ricoeur
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. — Jakob Nielsen
Testing a product is a learning process — Brian Marick
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. — Walter A. Shewhart
A design isn't finished until someone is using it. — Brenda Laurel
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification. — Karl Popper
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination — Jean-Francois Lyotard
In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. — Linus Torvalds
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi
A good explanation, first and foremost, is testable or falsifiable. — Naval Ravikant
Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration. — Nas
Playing dumb is a valid negotiating technique. — Chris Voss
No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid. — Lupita Nyong'o
An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions. — American Proverbs
When you are looking to be validated by others, you are living according to their values, not yours. — Jay Shetty
The sinister thing about excuses is they're... valid. — Tom Bilyeu
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. — Ryne Sandberg
I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. — Steve Jobs
Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. — Cliff Lerner
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Validation Image Quotes
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. — Linton Kwesi Johnson
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. — Lawrence M. Krauss
The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in your quest for greatness is our own.
Seeking Validation Quotes
Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people. — Sayings
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time. — Guillermo del Toro
We must question the seats of authority, especially in education, and seek to understand what "valid" is and where authority originates. — Bryant H. McGill
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you." But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself. — Claire Holt
I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that. — Hannah Hart
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven — St. Jerome
I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media. — Ricki-Lee Coulter
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in the past which remain valid and vital to the future ... The purpose of my art is to seek beauty and truth, and to explore and glorify the human being and the universe. — Frederick Hart
I Don't Need Validation Quotes
I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete. — Eric Andre
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to. — J. C. Watts
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this." — Jordan Peele
I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation. — Denzel Washington
I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy. — Sayings
I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one. — 50 Cent
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman. — Courtney Love
I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second. — Lee Child
External Validation Quotes
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty. — Lupita Nyong'o
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation. — T. D. Jakes
As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation. — Andrew Garfield
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J. G. Ballard
Emotional Validation Quotes
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? — Magda Gerber
I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows. — Chely Wright
Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do. — Ellen Hopkins
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer. — Langston Hughes
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large. — H. P. Lovecraft
If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask. — Charlie Cox
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them. — Noam Chomsky
The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. — Teju Cole
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. — Helen Van Slyke
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. — Jill Bolte Taylor
Validity Quotes
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. — Kathryn Kuhlman
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there. — Chester Bennington
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. — Eckhart Tolle
The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition. — Jeff Cooper
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws. — Thurgood Marshall
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. — Alan Watts
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. — Peter Brook
If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives. — Billy Graham
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. — Oswald Mosley
You Are Valid Quotes
If you think your critics are wrong, prove it. If you think your haters are wrong, prove it. If you think you're right, prove it. Results have historically been the best way to prove you're right. — Patrick Bet-David
I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs — Dennis McKenna
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! — Buddha
There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions. — Charlotte Rampling
If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. — David Sedaris
Approval isn’t necessary. It’s nice when you get it, but it’s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I’d have listened to approval, I’d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there’s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it. — Jared Leto
To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep. — Dave Barry
Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers . . . and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs. — Doreen Virtue
If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance. — T. Harv Eker
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation. — Eric Maisel
Feelings Are Valid Quotes
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing. — Abby Wambach
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence. — Rudolf Steiner
Acknowledgement and celebration are essential to fueling passion, making people feel valid and valuable, and giving the team a real sense of progress that makes it all worthwhile. — Dwight Frindt
It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own. — Gillian Jacobs
You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid. — Iyanla Vanzant
I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience. — Jennifer Higdon
I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution. — Jerry Pinkney
When you audition for something you do feel a little bit more legit. It's a validation that you are the right person for the job because they've chosen and they've seen you do something connected to that role. — Luke Evans
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through. — Jack Kirby
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least. — Martin Amis
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems. — Edgar Schein
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. — Mandy Hale
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so. — Richard Dawkins
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. — Carl Rogers
In the end, we have to sell when basically the reasons for purchasing a company in the first place are not valid anymore. — Francois Rochon
What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man. — David Robinson
Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes. — Peter Senge
It is necessary to clean up the Central Bank's interest-bearing liabilities, thus putting an end to money-printing and with it, the only empirically true and theoretically valid cause of inflation. — Javier Milei
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. — Simone Weil
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. — Uta Hagen
It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser. — James David Vance
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan
When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since. — Marlee Matlin
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views. — Frithjof Schuon
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi
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 number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance. — John Gray
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