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• What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

  Brian Tracy

  Softball, Sports, Jobs

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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• The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Believe, Self

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• Wrestling has positively impacted my life in many ways, but perhaps the one singular thing that I gained from wrestling that stands out the most is ­ wrestling provided me with the opportunity to learn mental toughness!

  Leroy Kemp

  Motivational, Wrestling, Opportunity

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• You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

  Nido R Qubein

  Thinking, Acting, Way

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• The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.4, Fig

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• It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Feelings, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Buddhism, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Effort, Mind

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12

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• Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Two, Important

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Love, Life, Family

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• Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Love, Life, Family

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• I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

  Tony Dungy

  Basketball, Football, Nfl

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• What happens when you speak positively? When you speak positively there is no negative left to express and then there's a gap. And that gap creates the super-positive. And that, in English, is what we call God. Therefore, cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

  Tony La Russa

  Winning, Thinking, Negative

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• I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Next Day, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Independence, Stories, Financial

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.

  SZA

  Fighting, People, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Independent

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• Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.

  Mark Durie

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Justice, Diversity, Shouting

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• Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 21, 2015

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• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

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