Positive Influences Quotes

#1. Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

Bruno Bettelheim

#2. I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three ... Oh crap, what was three?

David Letterman

#3. The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Theodor Adorno

#4. A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach.

Brian Michael Good

#5. Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Bob Newhart

#6. There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Matt Tong

#7. Cultivate a positive mental attitude. Your attitude influences your perceptions and your perceptions influence your decisions and your decisions influence your reality.

Deon Potgieter

#8. Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.

Tae Yun Kim

#9. You look very elegant today, my lord."
"I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger

George R R Martin

#10. When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

Andy Lau

#11. A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

Mena Suvari

#12. Women have been the most intelligent, peaceful and positive influences in my life, I don't want to generalize too much, but definitely in my experience, I've found the whole macho world of male aggression and insecurity to be a lot more difficult to exist in.

Zayn Malik

#13. Positive action, positive impart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. 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

#15. Will you go back?" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America?"
"Nothing to go back for," said Shadow, and as he said it he knew it was a lie.
"Things wait for you there," said the old man. "But they will wait until you return.

Neil Gaiman

#16. I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

Terry Gross

#17. 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

#18. The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

Sonia Sanchez

#19. Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

Samuel Alito

#20. Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Edgar Degas

#21. 12 Keep your thoughts positive about the future, as what you are thinking influences your future. This is a message to keep your faith and hope strong, because these are strong determining factors right now.

Doreen Virtue

#22. Be yourself and accept positive influences from others.

Saaif Alam

#23. Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

Vivica A. Fox

#25. Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

Richard Davidson

#26. If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Jean Vanier

#27. The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Stephen R. Covey

#28. Life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder.

J.D. Robb

#29. In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese