Katharine Graham Quotes

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I'm always checking other people's opinions.

I am an approval junkie.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.