The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.
~ Thomas Mallon
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
~ Erich Von Stroheim
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
~ Peter Asher
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
~ Barry Ritholtz
It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
~ John Hughes
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!
~ Monica Johnson
We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
~ Vicki Lawrence
Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.
~ Michael Greger
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
~ Ted Allen
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
~ Hank Azaria
North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.
~ David H. Murdock
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
~ Les Brown
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~ Tony Dorsett
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
~ Zig Ziglar
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
~ Maya Angelou
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
~ Ralph Marston
You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.
~ Marie Osmond
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.
~ Deepika Padukone
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
~ Anthony Carmona
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.
~ Alek Wek
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
~ John Lydon
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
~ Knute Rockne
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
~ James A. Baldwin
Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
~ Kapil Dev
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
~ Nick Offerman
I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
~ Jake Owen
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
~ Emmet Fox
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
~ Natalie Du Toit
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
~ Linus Torvalds
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
~ Sam Elliott
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
~ Floyd Mayweather
We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
~ Angela Duckworth
You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
~ Gail Kelly
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
~ Naveen Jain
I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
~ Thalia
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
~ Emma Watson
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
~ Omari Hardwick
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
~ James Mattis
