590 private quotes tagged positive

“With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.”— Sean Paul

“You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.”— Sheryl Swoopes

“When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.”— Peggy Fleming

“Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.”— Gabriela Sabatini

“I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.”— Genevieve Gorder

“We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.”— Keith Emerson

“I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.”— Kerry Washington

“We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.”— Krist Novoselic

“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.”— Guy Laliberte

“I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.”— Victoria Beckham

“The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.”— Ernest Istook

“A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.”— John Elway

“I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.”— John Elway

“The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.”— David Kay

“The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.”— Ibrahim Rugova

“The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.”— Taye Diggs

“I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.”— Julian Cope

“I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.”— Ashlee Simpson

“I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.”— Sue Wicks

“More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to a---s the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.”— Randy Neugebauer

“I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!”— Jenny Agutter

“The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.”— Frank Black

“So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.”— Dennis Bergkamp

“I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.”— Paul Kane

“I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.”— Jim Lampley