Quotes About Positive

As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

In general, positive Black Swans take time to show their effect while negative ones happen very quickly—it is much easier and much faster to destroy than to build.

make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm.

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A sense of humor, no matter how dark, is always a good thing.

Yet for all that I have had more joy than any of them, they were positive and depressed, and I am negative and happy.

Noble Savage. Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way.

I let no corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to edifying that it may minister grace to the hearer.

In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.

Researchers may have some conscious or unconscious bias, either because of a strongly held prior belief or because a positive finding would be better for their career. (No one ever gets rich or famous by proving what doesn't cause cancer.)

A medium or psychic once told me to think of my mom sending bright, positive beams of light down over me whenever I needed positive energy to calm my nerves or to meditate.

For my first role, I'm going to remember it forever as this incredible, positive experience, and just a miracle. The stars aligned, and it was perfect.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

What mixed martial arts is being marketed as is not the truth. We're not a bunch of idiots in a cage drinking beer all the time. It's a lifestyle, but it's a positive lifestyle.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

I'm a morning person.

I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

I am glad that I made my television debut with 'Perfect Pati,' a show that portrays a mother and her role as a mother-in-law in such a strong positive light.

My dad's career in politics, along with that of my grandfather, Prescott Bush, taught us that good people motivated by helping others can jump into the political fray and make a positive difference.

I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.

Most people say about graveyards: Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy. But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.