Quotes on Positive

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Author: Paula Abdul

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!

Author: Jenny Agutter

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Author: Jean Alesi

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

Author: Lucille Allard

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

Author: Luther Allison

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Author: Kevin Anderson

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

Author: John Astin

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

Author: Jean Auel

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Author: Honore Balzac

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

Author: Charles Barkley

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.

Author: Victoria Beckham

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

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Author: Justin Bieber

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Author: Emma Bonino

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

Author: Erskine Bowles

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Author: Tia Carrere

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.

Author: Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Author: Paul Cellucci

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

Author: Michael Chertoff

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Author: Robert Cook

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.

Author: Taye Diggs

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

Author: Fran Drescher

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

Author: John Elway

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

Author: Recep Erdogan

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.

Author: Jim Evans

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.

Author: Peggy Fleming

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Author: George Foreman

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

Author: Will Friedle

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

Author: Ed Gillespie

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.

Author: David Gower

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Author: Garrett Graff

We may not be able to control the waves, but we can learn how to surf.

Author: Jon Krakauer

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Author: Dante Hall

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Author: Daryl Hannah

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

Author: Garrett Hardin

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Author: Mary Hart

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Author: Seamus Heaney

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Author: Georg Hegel

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Author: Anthony Holden

Only fools are positive.

Author: Moe Howard

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Author: Bill Hybels

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

Author: Ernest Istook

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

Author: Bruce Jenner

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

Author: Mike Johanns

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

Author: Curtis Jones

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Author: Mary Jones

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Author: Franz Kafka

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Author: Paul Kantner

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Author: Paul Klee

The most important thing is to stay positive.

Author: Saku Koivu

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Author: Brian Koslow

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

Author: Jerry Kramer

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Author: Imre Lakatos

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Author: Geddy Lee

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

Author: Tony Lema

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Author: Roger Mahony

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Author: Camryn Manheim

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Author: Thomas Mann

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

Author: Taryn Manning

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

Author: Mark McGwire

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Author: Laura Miller

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Author: Laura Miller

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Author: Jose Mourinho

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Author: Robert Nelson

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Author: Huey Newton

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Author: Juice Newton

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Author: Yannick Noah

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.

Author: Ivor Novello

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.

Author: Barbara Olson

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.

Author: Brad Paisley

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

Author: Trevor Rabin

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

Author: Aishwarya Rai

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

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.

Author: Tim Reid

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Author: Janet Reno

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.

Author: Bill Richardson

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

Author: Knute Rockne

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Author: Andy Roddick

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.

Author: Mitt Romney

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

Author: Winona Ryder

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

Author: Jose Saramago

I want to come across as a positive person.

Author: Greta Scacchi

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.

Author: William Scott

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Author: Georg Simmel

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Author: B. Skinner

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Author: Terence Stamp

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.

Author: Johannes Stark

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

Author: Johannes Stark

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Author: Johannes Stark

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.

Author: Dorothy Stratten

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Author: George Takei

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.

Author: Roger Taylor

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Author: Kiana Tom

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Author: Linus Torvalds

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

Author: Johnny Vegas

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.

Author: Jimmy Wales

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Author: Marc Wallice

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

Author: Marc Wallice

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Author: Marc Wallice

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.

Author: Sue Wicks

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

Author: Roy Williams

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

Author: William Wills

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.

Author: Dick Wolf

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Author: Wayne Wonder

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Author: John Wooden

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

Author: David Zucker

Plant the seeds of kindness wherever you go, and watch as the world blossoms into a more beautiful place.

Author: Sarah Smith

Never underestimate the power of small acts of kindness, for they have the ability to change the world one person at a time.

Author: Jane Goodall

Don't be afraid to shine your light - the world needs your brilliance to spark change.

Author: Maya Angelou

Never underestimate the power of kindness and its ability to change the world one small act at a time.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

The sun will always rise, bringing hope and new beginnings each day.

Author: Sarah Williams

Happiness is not found in a destination, but in the journey there.

Author: Samantha Miller

Life is a canvas and artistry thrives in its imperfections.

Author: Serena Williams

Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.

Author: Emily Smith

Choose kindness as your weapon of choice in a world filled with noise and confusion.

Author: Grace Thompson

When in doubt, dance it out!

Author: Sophie Ellis

Do not be afraid of change, embrace it and ride the wave of possibility.

Author: Michelle Obama

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. It costs nothing but can mean everything.

Author: Michelle Obama