#positive

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. ↗

— John Newcombe

#fire #form #gradually #had #i

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ↗

— Tom Peters

#attention #deal #great #great deal #paying

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#be careful #behave #careful #carry #ever

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#decided #did #father #i #life

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#consume #force #great #great stuff #nourished

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#empty #forward #glass #half #i

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#care #college #get #go #impact

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing. ↗

— Jude Law

#chapters #contributing #direction #doing #everyone

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#abnormal #absorb #because #craving #eternal

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that. ↗

— Katie Ledecky

#feeling #feeling good #good #great #i