"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

Positive, Art, Giving, Pleasure

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Positive, Voice

"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

Positive, Danger, Nothing

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Positive, Realism, Sense, Writers

"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one."

Tim Reid, American Actor

Positive, Being, Culture, Media

"When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight."

Peggy Fleming, American Athlete

Positive, Fight

"Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset."

Aishwarya Rai, Indian Actress

Positive, Being, Faces, Today

"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive."

Jean M. Auel, American Writer

Positive, Letters, Sales

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Positive, Being, Infinite, Poor

"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."

Janet Reno, American Public Servant

Positive, Community, Prison, Want

"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"

Dante Hall, American Athlete

Positive, Athletes, Influence, Parents

Explore more quotes by Dale Carnegie

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."

Beauty

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

Writing

"Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get."

Happiness

"All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

Life

"By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing."

Mindset

"Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy."

Mindset

"You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy"

Business

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

Mindset

"Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things."

Life

"The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assuresus, you must 'not look too good nor talk too wise."

Wisdom