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Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.
As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.
People who feel positively think differently. They think better.
I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves.
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.
People like to be around those who give off positive energy.
Never mistake motion for action.
It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Everything has positive and negative consequences.
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.
Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I want always to be positive.
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
If you don't give up, you still have a chance.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.
I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.