Being Positive Quotes - Page 11

• Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive Thinking, Yield, Psychology

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  John Locke

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

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• Best beauty tip... Work yourself from the inside out. Eat right, drink right, look right!
  Positive energy brings a certain glow, so think positive, choose positive, be positive & attract positiveness. It always shows up on the outside.

  Mya

  Thinking, Positive Energy, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I work a lot, and I prepare a lot. I think that's really important when you live in LA, to go the extra mile for whatever it is that you're trying to achieve. You realize out here that when you stop moving so fast, it's a lot harder than you thought. A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times. I think you just have to always present yourself at your best, and you just need to be prepared all the time. Looking good, and feeling good, and being positive, and being in the right set of mind to accept whatever comes your way.

  Leven Rambin

  Moving, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.

  Sidney Crosby

  Couple, Next Steps, Able

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• You have to be logical and use international words so people can relate to reggae music. I'm the inventor of the word reggae music. I'm the one who coined the word reggae. So, whatever I put out on my label - my label called D & F Music - it has to be positive.

  Toots Hibbert

  People, Reggae, Logical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

  Louis Zamperini

  War, Exercise, People

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• Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we have achieved what we wanted to achieve, but there are also reasons for concern. Not everything turned out exactly as I would have liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and the principles contained therein and in our bill of rights.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Effort, Constitution, Reason

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Positive, Voice, Certainty

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.18, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Failure is just another opportunity to start over.

  Yogi Berra

  Opportunity, Starting Over, Another Opportunity

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• The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

  Dan Uggla

  Couple, Fall, Stay Positive

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• I feel like since I've had a child I've become a better problem-solver, because you just have to! I have to be positive for him for sure, but it's not even about thinking about it. It's just how to make this work, and it can get pretty nutty, but it's fun too!

  Carrie Underwood

  Children, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

  John Kasich

  Fun

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Responsibility, Needs

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

  Joe Torre

  Attitude, Opportunity, Errors

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• I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

  Ralph Marston

  Mean, Overcoming, Negative

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• Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Negative, Claims

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• Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

  Phil Harding

  Continuing On, Humanity, Needs

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• I don’t think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

  Bob McDonnell

  Thinking, Abortion, Trying

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Mean, Kids

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• You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.

  Stan Shih

  Destiny, Choices, Enjoy Life

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• I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

  Angela Merkel

  Women, Looks, Way

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• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking Right, Wrong Thinking, Being Afraid

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 24, 2014

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• Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

  Denis Waitley

  Running, Real, Winning

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