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• 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

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eye

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• ... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

  Plato

  Political, Way, May

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• Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

  Cameron Crowe

  World, Cynicism, Rough

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2000.

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• Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

  Jalen Rose

  Basketball, Team, Optimism

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• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  Gail Kelly

  Doors, Mind, Criticise

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• We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  Gail Kelly

  Doors, Two, People

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• To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Harry Vardon

  Peace, Golf, Play

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• You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Beautiful, Girl, Horse

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• When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

  Neve Campbell

  Negative, Looks, Belief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Past, Leader

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• Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

  Eric Allen

  Positive Thinking, Enlightenment, Energy

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• Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

  Daniel Goleman

  Negative, Positive Work, Environment

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• Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, People, Pessimistic

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• Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

  John M. Gottman

  Couple, Divorce, Negative

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• Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Attitude, People, Perspective

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• Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Keys, People, Longevity

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• The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

  Rudolf Clausius

  Law, Transformation, Process

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• When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Beautiful, Ego, Limits

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• I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Thinking, World

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• You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

  Teemu Selanne

  Smile, Hockey, Shooting

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• But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

  Anne Hathaway

  Negative, Remember, Very Positive

  "Anne Hathaway: Jokes about Oscar speech 'get to me'". www.today.com. February 26, 2013.

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• You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Talking, Athletics

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

  Ray Toro

  Reality, Dumb, Faces

  "What the players said" by Dirk von Gehlen, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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