source: "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

topic: Fun, Nice, World, Positive Experiences

Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.

- Louise Hay

topic: Negative, Affirmation, Speak, Negative Experiences, Power Of Positive Thinking

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

- Augusten Burroughs

source: Source: blogcritics.org

topic: Moving, Thinking, Giving, Positive Experiences, Good Examples

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

- Brian Tracy

source: Brian Tracy (2011). “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gratitude, Opportunity, Self, Positive Experiences

At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

- Dalai Lama

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

topic: Positive Experiences

I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.

- Jimmi Simpson

source: "Jimmi Simpson Tackles Sorkin's Farnsworth". Interview with James Sims, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2007.

topic: Horrible, Mediums, Wells, Horrible Experience, Really Positive

I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

- Nadya Suleman

source: "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

topic: Children, Believe, Blessing, Positive Experiences, God Blessing

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

topic: Change, Entertainment, Novelty, Positive Experiences

For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

- Shawn Achor

source: Source: www.independent.co.uk

topic: Meaningful, Past, Thinking, Most Meaningful, Positive Experiences

Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

- Leon Brown

topic: Live Life, Negativity, Wish, Washing, Bad Attitude

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Attitude, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, Positive Experiences

Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

- John Kessel

topic: Sports, Volleyball, Teacher, If You Care, Physical Activity

I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

- Fergie

topic: Girl, Queens, Drama, No Drama, Positive Experiences

I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

- Lance Armstrong

source: Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

topic: Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity, Positive Experiences, Testicular Cancer

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.

- Max Levchin

source: "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Mike Arrington, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

topic: People, Narrative, Really Cool, Positive Experiences

Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

- Eva Cox

topic: Trust, Order, Law, Wellbeing, Without Trust

I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

- Vince Neil

topic: Heart, Real Life, People, Really Positive, Positive Experiences

In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

topic: Suicide, Gay, Boys, Enriching, Life Affirming

I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

- Thomas Pogge