Positively Quotes - Page 15

• I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Girl, Impact, Empowering

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• In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Catholic, Evolution, Proposal

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• Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Competition, Opinion, Internet

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• When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Energy

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• Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.

  Holly Madison

  Thinking, Want, Going To Work

  "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.

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• When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.

  Christian D. Larson

  Perfect, Achievement, Mind

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• The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Erotic, Noses, Faces

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.915, Library of America

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• help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Growing, Helping, Organisms

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Ideas, Doctrine

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

  Agatha Christie

  Oysters, People, Trouble

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Husband

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• Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

  Steve Aylett

  Hope, Ambition, Goal

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• When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.

  Farrah Gray

  People, Empowering, Political

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• The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited.

  Lily Collins

  Real, Book, Twilight

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Black, Speak

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

  Jack Kornfield

  Party, Heart, Gossip

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Twenties, Fifty

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• I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Joy, World

  Interview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

  Ann Curry

  Teacher, Father, Thinking

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

  Stanley Donen

  Thinking, Years, Aversion

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