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• Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Optimistic, Leader, Visionaries

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• Growth is the process of responding positively to change.

  Paul Harvey

  Growth, Process, Responding

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• Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.

  Shawn Anderson

  Thinking, Giving, World

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• By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

  Aldous Huxley

  Gay, Night, Church

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

  Herb Caen

  Land, Cities, Two

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Reading, Space

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

  Joy Bryant

  Giving, Feel Good, Survival

  "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

  Britt Ekland

  Father, Hair, Victorian

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• I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

  Michael Chabon

  Editors, Ideas, Wife

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• I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Action, Social, Robbing

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• It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

  Steven Weinberg

  Spooky, Mathematician, Physicist

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• Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

  Stacy Allison

  Life, Creativity, Foundation

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• Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.

  Tom Flynn

  Target, Triggers

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• Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Optimistic, Impact

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• If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Storm, Violence

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• I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

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• I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Doubt, Unattractive

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• With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Relief, Stones

  Saturday Review, 26 Sept. 1896

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• I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

  Cole Younger

  Life, Country, War

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• The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

  Harold Laski

  Thinking, Numbers, Society

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• At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

  Bill Goldberg

  Impact, Hands, Events

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• But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.

  Tony Clark

  Believe, Color, Games

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• He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

  Leslie Charteris

  Believe, Men, Romance

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• Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Exercise, Thinking, About Yourself

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