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Positive Quotes – Page 4

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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.

Kevin J. Anderson

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Linda Lingle

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Marcus V. Pollio

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

Thad Cochran

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.

Bill Richardson

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

Brian Koslow

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

John Clayton

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.

Timothy Garton Ash

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.

Robert Nelson

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

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.

Robert MacNeil

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Joseph Beuys

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

Earle Brown

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.

Ibrahim Rugova

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.

David Zucker

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Elizabeth Edwards

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

Robert A. Cook

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Thomas J. Sargent

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

John Hall

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.

Erskine Bowles

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

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Brault

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Walter Rudolf Hess

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

Garrett M. Graff

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.

Jimmy Wales

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

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.

King Edward VIII

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Hans Bender

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Jose Ramos Horta

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.

Lucille Roybal Allard

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl D. Anderson

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

Camryn Manheim

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

Mary Hart

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

Trevor Rabin

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

Parminder Nagra

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

Johnny Vegas

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

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

Jerry Kramer

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Twyla Tharp

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

John Wooden

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

Paul Kantner

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

John Elway

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Johnny Rotten