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• I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden.

  Kara Goucher

  Sports, Cheer, Thinking

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• If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books

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• Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening

  Sophia Amoruso

  Focus, Happenings, Shocked

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.129, Penguin

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• I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Believe, Thinking, Expression

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• There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Girl, Role Models, Roles

  "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". SELF interview, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

  Yael Cohen

  Positivity, Emotional, Response

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• I did Air America for two reasons: to be in a movie with Mel Gibson and to make a bunch of money. And then underneath there was the hope that in doing this formulaic thing I would be launched into a whole new realm of opportunity to do A-list movies. By the time we were done, the only positive thing was meeting Mel Gibson.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Cocky, Opportunity, Air

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• Positive things happen to positive people.

  Sarah Beeny

  Motivational, Optimistic, People

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• And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

  Tom Felton

  Positive, Cheer, Real

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• Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

  Grimes

  Creativity, Stimulation, Term

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• 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?

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Buddhist, Thinking Negative

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• 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

  Good Day, Sober Up, Wake Up

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

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

  John Lydon

  Negative, Rotten, Sometimes

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• The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

  Reba McEntire

  Anger, Light, Long

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• 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.

  Jose Mourinho

  Trying, Faces, Easy

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• In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a positive thing. That's why I remain confident about America's ability to compete in the world, precisely because we've got a little bit of everybody in this country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

  Patti Smith

  Men, News, Fellow Man

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• If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

  Peter Kreeft

  Real, Evil, Choices

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.55, Ignatius Press

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• Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

  Dan Buettner

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Appreciation

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• Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Moving, Anger, Acceptance

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• I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

  Tori Spelling

  Positive, Rolling Along, Not Happy

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• 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.

  Fran Drescher

  Positive, Thinking, Talking

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• I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Blessing, Past

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• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Innovation, Definitions

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Team, Reading

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