To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
~By John Burroughs ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.
~By Tim Reid ~
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
~By Tim Allen ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
~By Brad Paisley ~
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
~By Larry Wall ~
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~By Charles Darwin ~
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
~By Andy Roddick ~
If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
~By Marc Wallice ~
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
~By David Bailey ~
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
~By Herbie Mann ~
Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.
~By Serge Lang ~
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
~By Jiang Zemin ~
More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.
~By Kiana Tom ~
If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.
~By Dorothy Stratten ~
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~By Brian Tracy ~
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~By Robert Collier ~
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.
~By Jim Evans ~
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
~By Paul Klee ~
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.
~By Curt Weldon ~
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
~By Mike Ferguson ~
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.
~By Taye Diggs ~
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
~By Pat Riley ~
The most important thing is to stay positive.
~By Saku Koivu ~
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
~By Emmet Fox ~
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
~By Len Wein ~
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
~By Knute Rockne ~
From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
~By Barbara Olson ~
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.
~By Peggy Fleming ~
I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.
~By Gray Davis ~
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
~By Justin Guarini ~
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
~By Kary Mullis ~
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
~By Brian Littrell ~
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
~By Thomas J. Peters ~
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
~By Nhat Hanh ~
It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
~By Joan Lunden ~
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
~By Delta Burke ~
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~
I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.
~By Tia Carrere ~
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
~By Jean Alesi ~
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
~By Herbert Read ~
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
~By Ivor Novello ~
If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
~By Willie Nelson ~
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
~By Chad Lowe ~
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
~By Bill Richardson ~
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
~By Dick Wolf ~
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~By King Edward VIII ~
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
~By Greg Louganis ~
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
~By Clay Aiken ~
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
~By Patricia Neal ~
Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.
~By Lesley Gore ~
He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.
~By David Gower ~
Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
~By Marilu Henner ~
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
~By Mitt Romney ~
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
~By Vito Fossella ~
Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.
~By Henrietta Szold ~
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
~By Chuck Norris ~
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
~By John Ruskin ~
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
~By Charles Barkley ~
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.
~By Keith Emerson ~
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
~By William Scott ~
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
~By Joe Manchin III ~
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
~By John Boehner ~
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
~By Jim DeMint ~
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
~By Major R. Owens ~
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
~By Mike DeWine ~
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
~By Laurel Clark ~
I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
~By Dan Marino ~
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
~By Yannick Noah ~
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
~By Rick Larsen ~
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
~By Jose Saramago ~
Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.
~By Dannii Minogue ~
I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
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