Positive Surroundings Quotes

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings. ~ Dan Gable

How can you be inspired if you do not surround yourself with the things that inspire you? ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas. ~ William Spencer

Imagination is a glorious wonder. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede. ~ Gary Hopkins

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. ~ Terence Stamp

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand. Research in neuroscience and cognitive science shows that people remember and respond most effectively to what they see and experience: "Seeing is believing." In the realm of experience, positive stimuli reinforce behavior, whereas negative stimuli change attitudes and behavior. Simply ~ W.Chan Kim

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. ~ Ambrose Bierce

You can't be around negative energy all day and expect to think positive; eventually the negativity will rub off on you. ~ Troy Gathers

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ~ Peace Pilgrim

When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best. ~ Rener Gracie

Be grateful for who you are and what you will be. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The act of living is a revolutionary right. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own. ~ Mandy Hale

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion. ~ John Wooden

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person. ~ Michelle Mone

I find myself pausing to admire her face.
For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings. ~ Marie Lu

The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture. ~ Elisabeth Beazley

We may not be able to change the reality but we can change how our minds see and store it. ~ Maddy Malhotra

Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced by an action. ~ Philip A. Becnel IV

A healthy relationship isn't about completing each other. You are already complete. It is about encouraging each other to show up as your best self. ~ Carol 'CC' Miller

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching. ~ Rory McIlroy

Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be. ~ Steve Maraboli

National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to the world we live in. Its all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies ... .people, plants and landscapes growing together, designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way. ~ Costa Georgiadis

Instead of reading, listening to, or watching upsetting world news during your breakfast, take this time to concentrate on positive things and start your day off on the right foot. Focus on what is taking place outside your kitchen window. Study the shape of the morning clouds, watch life taking place on the street. Give yourself time to appreciate the moment. ~ Luc Bodin M.D.

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. ~ Omari Hardwick

If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Their attitude toward another aspect of organization shows the same bias. What of the "group life", the loss of individualism? Once upon a time it was conventional for young men to view the group life of the big corporations as one of its principal disadvantages. Today, they see it as a positive boon. Working with others, they believe, will reduce the frustration of work, and they often endow the accompanying suppression of ego with strong spiritual overtones. They will concede that there is often a good bit of wasted time in the committee way of life and that the handling of human relations involves much suffering of fools gladly. But this sort of thing, they say, is the heart of the organization man's job, not merely the disadvantages of it. "Any man who feels frustrated by these things," one young trainee with face unlined said to me, "can never be an executive". ~ William H. Whyte

It is as though when we allow the slightest bit of positive inflow, we are rewarded by an increase in our creative outflow. ~ Julia Cameron

The extraordinary value of the I Ching is that it reveals the secrets of dynamic natural law. Working with its changes opens up access to the middle level of the Positive Paradigm Wheel, the "e" energy layer of Einstein's Unified Theory.

This middle level serves as mediating, two-directional gate-keeper between the ever-changing surface rim and the universal, timeless center. You can't get from here to there, except through the middle layer which, in Western thinking, is effectively taboo, buried in the inaccessible "unconscious."

To the extent that natural law is a blind spot in the prevailing, linear and exclusively empirical paradigm, we are left powerless to move beyond the surface level of experience. The realm of light and conscience which rests beyond, on the far side of the dynamic energy level, remains functionally inaccessible.

Moral codes promoted by religionists or politicians are sometimes equated with conscience. But they're no substitute for direct experience. Only by becoming intelligently competent in managing the subtle energies of the middle level is it possible to travel further inwards for the immediate, personal experience of inner light.

When the middle level becomes clogged with painful memories, negative emotions and socially taboo urges, it becomes a barrier to deeper knowing. The Book of Change is indispensable as a tool for restoring the unnecessarily "unconscious" to conscious awareness, so that the l ~ Patricia E. West

The possibility of the dream is our joy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways ... our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself ... 'Are there things I'd like to change?' ~ Mac Anderson

Gratitude is an endless praise. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic. ~ Jack White

When your life is in turmoil and your soul appears to be lost hold your head up high and try to smile. When doors are closed others open up to sometimes yield better horizons. There will always be doors throughout life, Live it, Love it and Embrace it, yet never settle for second best because you deserve nothing but the best ~ Charles E Hudson

Never live a day without a prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future. ~ Auliq Ice