“Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.”
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“Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.”
“There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.”
“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
“I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.”
“I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.”
“I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.”
“Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?”
“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.”
“When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.”
“More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.”
“When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.”
“What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.”
“I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.”
“But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.”
“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.”
“Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'”
“Accent your positive and delete your negative.”
“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.”
“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”
“You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.”
“Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.”
“People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.”