There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.
I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.
Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
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.
Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
Faith like hope, if you keep on, the results are a positive lifestyle and dreams achieved.
