"Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems."

-- Barbara Fredrickson

#People Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”
“The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.”
“You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.”
“Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.”
“The one thing I did learn at Florida State, I learned to talk trash, believe that”
“Life like an empty dream flits by.”
“â€¦ she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovahâ€™s Witness: uninvited and tireless.”
“There is sexism -- I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'”

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