- Nov 07, 2020
Positive Quotes
Small reminders to keep moving in a good direction.
These quotes look at staying positive from different angles: family advice to keep calm and carry on, the effect a concert or song can have on a room, and the pressure that comes with being watched by others. Readers who enjoy this tone often browse our Positive Status collection too.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020