Being Positive Quotes - Page 8

• If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Fun

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Fake, Positive Energy

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

  Theodor Adorno

  Running, Positivity, Friendly

  Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.19, Routledge

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• After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

  Christie Brinkley

  Attitude, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

  "21 Celebrities Who Opened Up About Their Miscarriages To Support Other Women" by Caroline Bologna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2015.

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• You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

  Muriel Siebert

  Positive, Opportunity, Complaining

  Muriel Siebert, Aimee Lee Ball (2002). “Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

  Patti Smith

  Intelligent, People, Kind

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• ... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

  Plato

  Political, Way, May

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• Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

  Shannon Miller

  Attitude, Gymnastics, Negative

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• Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Positive, Basketball, Softball

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• Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

  Cameron Crowe

  World, Cynicism, Rough

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2000.

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• Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

  Jalen Rose

  Basketball, Team, Optimism

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• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  Gail Kelly

  Doors, Mind, Criticise

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• We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  Gail Kelly

  Doors, Two, People

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• To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Harry Vardon

  Peace, Golf, Play

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• You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Beautiful, Girl, Horse

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Positive, Weed, Attitude

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• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Patricia Ireland

  Thinking, Optimism, Energy

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• I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Positive, Negative, Chloe

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• I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

  Jean Alesi

  Positive, Disappointment, Race

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• I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.

  Rajneesh

  Positive Thinking, Negative, Loser

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• I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Games, Video

  "Men of the Year 2011: Showmen: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

  Earl Weaver

  Meaningful, Sports, Winning

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• If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Love Life, Sadness

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