You Quotes

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

~ Len Wein

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

~ David Hockney

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

~ Bill Gates

I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.

~ Jessica Springsteen

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

~ Brian Mcdermott

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

~ Hillary Clinton

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

~ Yoko Ono

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

~ Yoko Ono

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

~ Orison Swett Marden

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

~ Michael Leunig

Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.

~ Irina Shayk

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

~ Keke Palmer

Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.

~ Travis Kalanick

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

~ Ava Duvernay

You need to train your brain to be positive.

~ Nargis Fakhri

You don't have to be positive all the time.

~ Amy Purdy

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

~ Chrystia Freeland

You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

~ Larry Wilmore

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

~ Grimes

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

~ Rutina Wesley

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

~ Srikumar Rao

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

~ Sheryl Swoopes

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

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

~ Mavis Staples

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

~ Vince Flynn

You don't get older, you get better.

~ Shirley Bassey

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

~ Satchel Paige

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

~ Bob Hope

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

~ Paris Hilton

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

~ Audrey Hepburn

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

~ Lewis Carroll

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

~ Bruce Barton

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

~ Mary Steenburgen

I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.

~ Adele

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

~ Q'orianka Kilcher

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

~ Douglas Coupland

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

~ Nicolas Ghesquiere

I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.

~ Jacob Latimore

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.

~ Rob Lowe

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

~ Anne Lamott