"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon."

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Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books

Alan Loy McGinnis

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.”
“Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.”
“You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they donâ€™t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
“When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.”

Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
“I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.”
“I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.”
“A centerpiece for any kind of progressive social and economic program needs to be full employment with decent wages and working conditions. The reasons are starting with money. Does someone in your family have a job and, if so, how much does it pay? For the overwhelming majority of the world's population, how one answers these two questions determines, more than anything else, what one's living standard will be. But beyond just money, your job is also crucial for establishing your ability to raise a family, and your chances to participate in the life of your community.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'”

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