Quotes About Positive

Mr. Scary did a thumbs-up.

You're a liberal, right? You adore positive logic, and you have a certain political awareness, which maybe is the conscience of the privileged.

Happiness is a choice

Almost by definition, to be a maximizer is to have high standards, high expectations. Because of this, and because of the role played by expectations in hedonic evaluations, an experience that is on the positive side of the hedonic thermometer for a satisficer may be on the negative side for a maximizer.

Caught up in the all-encompassing idea of their country's "manifest destiny," they convinced themselves that American influence abroad could only be positive and that anyone who rejected it must be bad.

It was only when we went to work in our Circle of Influence, when we focused on our own paradigms, that we began to create a positive energy that changed ourselves and eventually influenced our son as well. By working on ourselves instead of worrying about conditions, we were able to influence the conditions.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, by determining which of these two circles is the focus of most of our time and energy, we can discover much about the degree of our proactivity. Enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

Tu actitud determina tu altitud», «La sonrisa hace más amigos que el entrecejo fruncido» y «La mente humana puede lograr todo lo que concibe y cree».

we also faced the reality that we had the power to choose a positive response to those circumstances and projections.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, by determining which of these two circles is the focus of most of our time and energy, we can discover much about the degree of our proactivity.

if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, by determining which of these two circles is the focus of most of our time and energy, we can discover much about the degree of our proactivity. Enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.  

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. So I might write something like this: "It is deeply satisfying (emotional) that I (personal) respond (present tense) with wisdom, love, firmness, and self-control (positive) when my children misbehave.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.

attitude determines your altitude," "Smiling wins more friends than frowning

Prepared Imaginative Good at listening Powerful Humorous Adventurous Self-assured Intuitive Loyal Persistent Goal-Oriented Courageous Determined Committed Self-affirming Resilient Genuine Aware of my talents Responsible Passionate Positive Creative Playful Independent Optimistic Caring

I am not suggesting that elements of the Personality Ethic—personality growth, communication skill training, and education in the field of influence strategies and positive thinking—are not beneficial, in fact sometimes essential for success. I believe they are. But these are secondary, not primary traits.

The classic self-problem seen in clinical settings is fusion with the content of verbal self-knowledge—such as "I am depressed" where "depressed" has the quality of a personal identity. This aspect of self—the conceptualized self—can be "positive" or "negative" or both, but its most dominant features are that it is rigid, evaluative, and evocative.

It also means that the pain of negative feedback will for most people trump the pleasure from positive feedback.

psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth.

You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake.