Quotes About Positive

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

I'm often asked why I got out when so many didn't. I've mentioned the high school teacher who stopped me in the hall for my assistance in a school performance. Before that man, whose name is Stan Asher, no one had ever looked at me or spoken to me as though I had value. For me, that's the key. Otherwise, I probably would have gone on believing that I was intrinsically bad, with nothing to offer. I believe that many in that house were never offered a positive image of themselves.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

triggering happy memories of past positive moods and getting your conversation partner to identify those happy positive memories with your conversation, you pave the way for them identifying you with positive elements of their lives.

When Jay has a guest on his show, that guest is the center of his world for the next 10 minutes. They are the most interesting person he has ever come across, everything they say is spellbinding, he is insatiably curious about their stories, and he reacts to anything they say with an uproarious laugh and otherwise exaggerated reaction that they were seeking. He is charmingly positive, and can always find a humorous spin on a negative aspect of a story.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.

Just as we throw out our garbage, we need to cast out thoughts that are trashy.

Several studies have shown that implicit corrective feedback (for example, recasts) in pair-work situations is beneficial. A recent review of this research confirms that the positive effects for recasts are strongest in the laboratory setting (Mackey and Goo 2007). This may be because recasts are more salient in pair work, particularly if only one form is recast consistently (Nicholas, Lightbown, and Spada 2001).

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

One of the tests for positive thinking, for constructive thinking, is to test one's idle moments. At those times, is one's mind turning over negative critical thoughts; fighting battles that have been won or lost; rehashing senseless arguments? If so, then one is out of tune. But if one is thinking how to improve a situation or a procedure, how to gain a worthwhile objective, then one is on the constructive side of life.

Yes, there is another important category of feelings that matter to you, and these are the feelings of purpose and pointlessness you feel. I will use these adjectives as shorthand for a range of positive and negative feelings, such as fulfillment, meaning, and worthwhileness on the one hand and boredom and futility on the other.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

He (Riemann) showed that there are three main ways space can be curved- positive curvature, negative curvature, and zero curvature. Thes correspond respectively to elliptic, hyperbolic, and Euclidean flat geometries.

for the irreducible case with all three roots real, there is just one positive root; that is, the root given by the Cardan formula

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Attitudes are contagious. When I chose a love-based life, I set the tone in my home and work place. Sadly, the same thing happens when I choose fear. We really do, I have found, get back what we put out.

It's the difference between control and influence. We give up trying to control our partner's behavior. Instead, we try to influence their behavior in a positive direction. We do this by exercising choices in the way we act and in the way we communicate with them.

We do energy assessments not energy audits. An energy audit is where you tell someone they are doing something wrong. An Assessment is where we help someone to do something right

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

In our business, we preach "Aducation." The idea is simple but powerful: Create ads that are, in and of themselves, helpful and useful, so that even if viewers don't follow you any further online, at least they've had a positive, valuable experience with your brand. This strategy helps build rapport and foster a good relationship between the brand and the viewer, and it means you don't bombard (or worse, annoy) your viewers with a pushy sales message.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.