P.O.D. kind of built that brand name. We came out and have been open about our faith. We've always been a positive band in a world that's pretty crazy and wild.
— Sonny Sandoval
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society.
— Sonam Kapoor
Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.
— Slowthai
I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.
— Siobhan Fallon Hogan
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
— Simon Winchester
Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better, it can only be a positive thing.
— Simon Mignolet
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?
— Simon Mainwaring
If we think about the autism spectrum as involving a very strong drive to systemize, that can have very positive consequences for the individual and for society. The downside is that when you try to systemize certain parts of the world like people and emotions, those sorts of phenomena are less lawful and harder to systemize.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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
Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.
— Sian Clifford
I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative.
— Shonda Rhimes
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
— Shiv Khera
Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.
— Shilpa Shinde
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
— Shia LaBeouf
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
— Shervin Pishevar
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.
— Shepard Fairey
I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.
I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.
I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you.
— Snoh Aalegra
You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.
— Slim Jimmy
If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.
— Simone Biles
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.
— Simon Sinek
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.
— Simon Fuller
We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
— Silvan Shalom
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
— Sidney Poitier
With music, I'm transported to a place that radiates positive frequencies and immediately eases my worries.
— Shruti Haasan
I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.
— Shiva Ayyadurai
It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.
— Shirley Manson
I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
— Sheryl Swoopes
I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.
There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.
— Shelley Long
In 'Lean In,' Sheryl Sandberg gives a frank assessment of what it will take for women to move forward as equals to men. Her book is full of sound advice and informed recommendations and marked by its positive outlook.
— Sonny Mehta
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
The entertainment industry can feel so serious. But at the end of the day, it's music and it's supposed to be positive and make people feel good.
The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
— Skrillex
My psychologist told me I have to control my emotions and be more positive. She's taught me to stop the negative thoughts during the matches with some exercises. That's helped me make an improvement.
— Simona Halep
I can only do my best, work hard, be positive and confident and I believe in myself. That is the only thing I can do.
When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.
— Simon Beaufoy
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I've learnt so much since I joined cinema. I just want to take it as a positive experience.
Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.
To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.
— Shinzo Abe
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.
— Sheryl Lee
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
— Sherman Alexie
