590 private quotes tagged positive

“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.” — David Hockney

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“I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.” — Sam Elliott

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“Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.” — Patti Smith

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“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.” — Earl Warren

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“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.” — Tyra Banks

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“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?” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.” — Garrett Hardin

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“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.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.” — Deryck Whibley

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“When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.” — Ian Somerhalder

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“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.” — Henry Louis Gates

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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

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“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.'” — John Podhoretz

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“Accent your positive and delete your negative.” — Donna Karan

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“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.” — Miley Cyrus

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“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.” — Garrett Hardin

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“You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.” — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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“Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.” — Sienna Miller

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“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.” — Emma Watson

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“An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.” — Johannes Stark

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“There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.” — Diablo Cody

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“The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.” — Stephen Harper

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“I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.” — Jason Mraz

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