Positively Quotes

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

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

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

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.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

When he looked at me, his eyes positively twinkled. Christ. I was screwed. Eyes were twinkling at me.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.