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• 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

  Trying, Looks, Answers

  "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Successful, Men, People

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.49, Knopf

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• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Fire, Impact

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• I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

  Charles Kennedy

  Essentials, Cigarette, Accepting

  "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

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• It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Mean, Important, Outcomes

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• 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Real, Ice Cream

  "Test Marketing a New Term ..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Believe, Heart, Two

  Henry Van Dyke (1924). “Six Days of the Week: A Book of Thoughts about Life and Religion”

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• Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Roles, Landing, Surprising

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• There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Advice, Earth

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• And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

  Delta Burke

  Real, Talking, Body

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Men, Community, Citizens

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• What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Successful, Men, Doe

  "Sheryl Sandberg Tells Oprah About Her ‘Date’ With Mark Zuckerberg, Her Marriage And Feeling Like A Fraud". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Being Happy, Choices, Causes

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.108, Penguin

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Play, Gold

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• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Agony, Bereavement, Suffering

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

  Iain Banks

  Lying, Opposites, Giving

  Iain M. Banks (2010). “Look To Windward”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Justice, Diversity, Shouting

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• Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

  Howard Rheingold

  Editors, Letters, Deals

  "Howard Rheingold: Knowing How to Collaborate Is Essential". Interview with Roland Legrand, mediashift.org. March 12, 2012.

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• The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Judging, Way

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

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• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, Silly, May

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Ideas, Democracy, Overcoming

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• Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Thinking, Trying

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

  Elayne Boosler

  People, World, Want

  "Top 5 Things I’m Thankful for" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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