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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Garrett Hardin on positive

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on positive

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
LL Cool J on positive

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
Sienna Miller on positive

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
Sienna Miller on positive

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 on positive

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock on positive

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
Johannes Stark on positive

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott on positive

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.
Ron Fournier on positive

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.
Diablo Cody on positive

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.
Stephen Harper on positive

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts on positive

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock on positive

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
David Attenborough on positive

Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
T. D. Jakes on positive

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.
Amanda Seyfried on positive

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
Marilu Henner on positive

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
Charles Barkley on positive

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
Yoko Ono on positive