#positive

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is". ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#could #dad #desperate #feeling #future

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#believer #best #ever #giving #happened

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#beyond #book #business #go #i

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. ↗

— George Saunders

#beautifully #because #bit #down #feel

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#interaction #naturally #positive #relation #specific

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#career #first #influence #lived #peter

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#before #daddy #forward #going #grows

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #certain #distinguish #electric #field