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.

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.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no read more

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

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

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

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The read more

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from read more

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

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.