Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work read more

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed read more

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to read more

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. read more

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive read more

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

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.