c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
— Marianne Williamson
Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.
— Diana Lopez
I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.
— Simon Sinek
I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.
— Guy Fieri
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
— Emma Bonino
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
— Kiefer Sutherland
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
— Kid Cudi
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow.
— Dylan Lauren
The most positive men are the most credulous.
— Alexander Pope
Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.
— Alana Stewart
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.
— Rodney King
I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie that language doesn't work for me. 
— James Gunn
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. 
— George Eliot
Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain. 
— Robert A. Cook
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
— Jeb Bush
I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.
— Leona Lewis
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
— Dan Gable
Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.
— Jacob Rothschild
I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
— Thalia
An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.
— Richard Branson
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
I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.
— Jerry Hall
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.
— Tim Allen
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
— Donald Cram
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
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
— Lena Dunham
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
— Grace Slick
Like beautiful homes, cute babies, or noble careers helping others, books can make us feel like we mean something positive, and in gratitude, we truly love them.
— Nell Zink
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
— Gottfried Leibniz
I try to give positive energy in all my shows.
— Curtis Jones
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
— Honore de Balzac
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
— Rodney King
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.
— Tiger Woods
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
— Jack Antonoff
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
— Marla Gibbs
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
— Omari Hardwick
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
— Indra Nooyi
One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.
— Lex Luger
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
— Muhammad Yunus
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.
— Adora Svitak
Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. 
— Bo Sanchez
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
— Marianne Williamson
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.
— Shari Arison
You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.
— McKayla Maroney
Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.
— Steven Sinofsky
It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.
— Irene Joliot-Curie
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
— James Mattis
One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.
— Nargis Fakhri
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
— Craig Sager
I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.
— Bastian Schweinsteiger
I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
— Martin Garrix
What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
— Kate O'Mara
While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
— Michael D. Higgins
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.
— Len Wein
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
— Pratibha Patil
It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.
— Mesut Ozil
All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people. 
— David Robinson
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
— Brian Koslow
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
— Dolly Parton
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
— Caitlyn Jenner
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
— Corazon Aquino
Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
— Louis C. K.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
— John McDonald
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.
— Geddy Lee
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
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
— Patricia Richardson
If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
— Marc Wallice
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
— Genevieve Gorder
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.
— Thomas Mann
So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
— Petra Nemcova
I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
— Venus Williams
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
— Joel Osteen
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
— David Hockney
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
— Yehuda Berg
I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
— Zooey Deschanel
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
— Joseph Nye
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
— Wyclef Jean
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
— Lance Armstrong
Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
— Joe Paterno
I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
— Russell Simmons
I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
— Biz Stone
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
— Richard Attias
Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.
— Tom Rath
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
— Gretchen Rubin
Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society.
— Sonam Kapoor
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
— Yuvraj Singh
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.
— Bipasha Basu
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
— Bill Gates
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
— Stephen Hawking
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
— Jami Attenberg
With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and I intend to take on any necessary responsibilities in order to make a positive impact and spread a message we all believe in so strongly.
— Steve Finley
AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.
— Tim Hudson
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.
— Erin Gruwell
I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.
— Justin Lee
There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
— Samuel Larsen
Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't ask me why, I always felt very strongly that the point for me was to find a way to live a truly spiritual life in the modern day world and be able to work with all the positive aspects of our cultural and technological advancements.
— Linus Roache
No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.
— Elizabeth Holmes
P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
— Martin Seligman
I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
— Brendon Urie
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
— Abby Wambach
I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.
— Jessica Springsteen
The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.
— Douglas Alexander
I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.
— Ann Aguirre
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
— Carly Fiorina
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
— Robert Solow
All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
— Zig Ziglar
It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
— Naval Ravikant
People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
— Gallant
Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
— Lars Onsager
As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
— Ian Anthony Dale
Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.
— Rosanna Pansino
We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.
— George M. Church
I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
— Gal Gadot
I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.
— Albert Bandura
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
— T. J. Miller
New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages.
— Lawrence Kudlow
As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
— Ingrid Betancourt
All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.
— Rupert Friend
I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.
— Jessica Parker Kennedy
I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
— Kat Graham
I'm a person who watches TV all the time - all the time I love TV. And I really think that the media heavily influences how we as a society behave towards each other. And one of the things that I find to be lacking on television are positive images of diversity. 
— Maysoon Zayid
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
— Ken Blanchard
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.
— Mary C. Jones
The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.
— David Mixner
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.
— Brian McDermott
If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
— Derrick Rose
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
— Victoria Beckham
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
— Mario Benedetti
As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
— Matthew Stafford
I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
— Stephen Hawking
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
— Shia LaBeouf
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.
— Helen Fisher
Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.
— Chuck Norris
Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
— John McEnroe
I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.
— Victoria Beckham
What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
— Derek Jeter
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
— Sienna Miller
I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.
— Amy Purdy
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
— Bill Gates
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
— P. J. O'Rourke
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
— Hillary Clinton
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
— Hillary Clinton
I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.
— Hillary Clinton
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Mitt Romney
I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.
— Joyce Meyer
Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.
— Rush Limbaugh
I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.
— Rush Limbaugh
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
— Richard Dawkins
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.
— Marco Rubio
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.
— Billy Graham
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
— Patti Smith
To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
— Angelina Jolie
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
— Elliott Abrams
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
— Yoko Ono
When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
— Yoko Ono
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
I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.
— Tyra Banks
Enthusiasm is something so positive.
— Carine Roitfeld
Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
— Kevin Spacey
The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.
— Marine Le Pen
Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.
— Ben Bernanke
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
— Ridley Scott
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
— Orison Swett Marden
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
— Orison Swett Marden
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
— Shia LaBeouf
I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
— Shia LaBeouf
I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
— Venus Williams
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
— Al Franken
I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.
— Craig Venter
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
— Ambrose Bierce
This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.
— Paul Ryan
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.
— Brad Paisley
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.
— Michael Leunig
Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
— Ziggy Marley
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
— Ziggy Marley
Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
— Gary Johnson
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
— Charles Duhigg
I try to stay positive and be very, very active.
— Goldie Hawn
If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.
— Goldie Hawn
There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.
— Ashton Kutcher
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
— George Osborne
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.
— Joyce Carol Oates
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
— William Godwin
We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.
— Anushka Sharma
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.
— Richard P. Feynman
It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
— Mark McKinnon
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
— Martha Beck
I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.
— Gillian Jacobs
I love America. It's such a positive country.
— Victoria Beckham
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
You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
— Victoria Beckham
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
— Andrea Bocelli
I think the Internet is a huge positive.
— Jason Bateman
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.
— Jeb Bush
Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
— Mary J. Blige
Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
— Sam Hunt
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.
— Mo Ibrahim
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
— Kat Graham
I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.
— Kat Graham
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.
— Winona Ryder
I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.
— Bill Goldberg
I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn't agree with, then I wouldn't do it. If it was good for the show, then I had no problem. If it was demeaning to the character and wasn't adding a positive light to the show, then I can guarantee that I wouldn't do it.
— Bill Goldberg
A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
— Martin O'Malley
Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.
— Robert Reich
There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.
— Allen Iverson
I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.
— Caroline Wozniacki
My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.
— Caroline Wozniacki
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.
— Simon Mainwaring
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.
— Peter Thiel
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.
— Janet Reno
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.
— Daniel Kahneman
It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.
— Darius Rucker
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.
— George Foreman
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
— George Takei
At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
— George Takei
That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they're also the most doubtful beings. They'll never know - we'll never know - how powerful we are.
— Rihanna
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
— Nadia Comaneci
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
— Katee Sackhoff
Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.
— Irina Shayk
A President cannot always be popular.
— Harry S Truman
I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.
— Misty Copeland
If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
— Damian Lewis
I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.
— Juliette Lewis
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
— Tucker Carlson
I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
— Tyler Perry
Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this.
— Robert Zubrin
I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people's imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.
— Ron Howard
Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.
— Jimmy Smits
I do want to be involved in quality projects that say something positive about the Latino community.
— Jimmy Smits
There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.
— Jimmy Smits
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
— Charles B. Rangel
As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.
— Jerry Hall
I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.
— Ansel Elgort
'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.
— Ansel Elgort
Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.
— DJ Khaled
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.
— Kim Cattrall
There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.
— Keke Palmer
I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.
— Keke Palmer
It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.
— Bindi Irwin
Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.
— Victoria Osteen
In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
— Victoria Osteen
There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing.
— Travis Kalanick
Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.
— Travis Kalanick
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
— Maajid Nawaz
My mom is positive and optimistic.
— Lindsey Vonn
Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.
— Margot Robbie
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
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar