It's a foot in the door, it helps to establish myself in the US and it's a validation that I'm actually on the right track.
So when that painting -- a sensual image of the artist's mistress Marie-Th?se Walter reclining naked -- brought $106.5 million, becoming the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, it was a validation that once-in-a-lifetime images go for gigantic prices.
In a way, it's a validation that your life matters and has significance.
"It's a validation that even in the most chaotic warzones, not all killing is permissable there are limits".
"It's a validation that blacks do exist and that we do make a difference in this life.
The experience was incredible, because it was not only a milestone of great significance for the company, but it was a validation that this is the future of education in China, and it's happening now.
Smiling is as much a reflection of an organization as it is a validation of that organization's promise.
It is a validation of their much-maligned original vision: that the Internet is a revolutionary new form of commerce and that only companies that became big early, even while ignoring profitability, will survive.
"I think we are seeing the beginning of a bubble but if LinkedIn does well it would be a validation that there is money to be made in social networking," said Matt Rosoff, west coast editor of news site Business Insider.
"It's a validation of the fact that universities are drivers of the growth and innovation in our economy," she said.
For Lachlan, it was a validation of his view that James was the wrong public face of the campaign for Sky, reminding the public of the hacking scandal and all the hostility toward the Murdochs it had stirred up.
