#positive

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#creation #during #employment #full-time #grow

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. ↗

— Keith Haring

#components #contain #function #inner #nature

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#i #influence #people #positive #side

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#because #becomes #courts #dangers #edward

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive. ↗

— John Elway

#bowls #i #know #last #last year

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#effort #feedback #good #linux #makes

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #indeed #link #only #positive

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#first #god #oppressive #orthodox #positively

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#because #characters #did #directors #dynamic